Re: Profanity in the Linux Kernel?!?!?

Michael B. Trausch (mtrausch@wcnet.org)
Tue, 8 Jun 1999 23:54:34 -0400 (EDT)


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Personally, I counted 24 instances of fuck, many more of shit, damn,
bitch, or deritives thereof (fucking, shitty, damnit or dammit, etc).

I think it could be an issue as far as censorship of the language goes,
but nothing more than a minor inconvience.

BTW, just run "grep -rn fuck *" or whatever word your looking for, while
in /usr/src/linux and it will tell you the filename and line number of
each instance along w/ the line.

On 8 Jun 1999, Scott Jaderholm wrote:

>
> Good Evenin',
>
> I probably don't really have the right to say the following, because I
> don't contribute to the linux kernel. But I am going to say it
> anyways :)
>
> I hope that I do not offend too many people.
>
> cd /usr/src/linux ; grep -i fuck `find . -name '*.[ch]'`
>
> It seems to me that if you are trying to make an OS that is going to be
> used by the masses you would try and present yourselves as best as
> possible. Using profanity to document your code doesn't seem all that
> appealing to me, but I don't know about others.
>
> Is it really necessary? Someone could easily put "messed up" in place
> of it.
>
> Anyways, I guess it is up to you guys whether you would like that stuff in
> there. I just wasn't sure how many of you knew how many times it was
> in there..
>
> Cheers,
> Scott
>
> P.S. Please CC to me, since I am not subscribed to this list (I tried
> it last night, but after getting 170 messages over night I decided it
> was too much)
>
> P.S.S. BTW, I don't go looking for this type of thing. It is just
> that I heard about it in an IRC channel so I checked it out.
>
> P.S.S. It would be kind of interesting to see how many times that word
> is used in some of the code that comes out of Redmond eh? But there is
> a difference, no one sees theirs (that doesnt make it right though).
>
>
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