Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:56:45 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Michael B. Trausch" <> | Subject | Re: Profanity in the Linux Kernel?!?!? |
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listen... Open source software is already superior in many ways to closed source: It performs better, it is more stable, etc., etc. HOWEVER... closed source software has this shist in it too. For that matter, it could have even worse for all I know.
Point is, we are human. Humans use that language, last time I checked, both outside and inside of work.
Live with it. In the long run, nobody's gonna give a rat's ass about what may be lurking in the source - they look for what saves them money, and works reliably.
And Linux does that.
So let's just move on.
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Barry Treahy wrote:
> I believe you've missed a couple of the well articulated points; that is that > people are working hard to present Linux as an acceptable component in corporate > environments and that anything which casts a negative impression about the Linux > makes it much harder to fight corporate bean counters that own MicroSloth stock. >
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