Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 25 Jul 1996 16:51:30 +0200 | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Subject | Re: Nasty comments |
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Linus Torvalds:
: ..., and a patch like
: - printk("Fucking sun blows me\n"); : + /* Sun _does_ blow me, but the user may not want to know about it */ : + /* printk("Fucking sun blows me\n"); */
: would probably have been accepted by me on-the-spot.
: However, it is NOT ok to just act like a mindless robot and just remove every : profanity in sight. That way lies book-burning and "forbidden" thoughts. : Sugarcoating it with "moral reasons", thinking _you_ have the moral right to : suppress others, is the ultimate immorality.
: Thus endeth "Lessons in morality 101",
Well said.
But the message itself is buggy and should be fixed. Not (only) because Victorian-minded people might object, but because this is the message that gets printed when you try to mount a FreeBSD ufs filesystem, in the mistaken belief that the "-t ufs" mount option would handle those.
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