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    SubjectRe: Nasty comments
    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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