RE: Cosmetic Changes: ensuring decency of the Linux Kernel Source

Erik Talvola (etalvo@sapient.com)
Tue, 13 Oct 1998 11:41:04 -0500

> Hello guys,
>
> I did a grep of the kernel for the "f-word" and to my surprize, found
> plenty...
>
> As English is not my first language I cannot insist with any degree of
> certainty that this is not acceptable but, just in case, I attached the
> list of files that someone more literate than me might want to
> "spell-check".
>
> My deepest and sincere apologies if this offends someone - my intention
> is only improvement of Linux in any way, however minor it may seem :)
>
> regards,
> Tigran

Just as a comment on this. At the Mozilla Release Party in San Francisco,
someone was handing out sheets labeled "Free Code - Free Speech - Stop The
Censors!". It was a grep of all of the "f-word" and other comments in the
code. All of them were stripped before the first official public release.

I think Mozilla would have been cooler if they were left in, but I suppose
comments like:

// MS sucks! See Note above
/* Motif sucks, as usual. */
# define terry_has_lost_his_mind_and_also_macs_suck 0

might be considered somewhat hostile...

I only have a printed sheet - maybe sometime I'll try to scan it in. I did
a keyword search on AltaVista and can't find it anyplace on the net.

--erik
talvola@yahoo.com

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