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

Denis Oliver Kropp (dok@fischlustig.de)
Wed, 9 Jun 1999 11:21:42 +0200


CaT�s crap from Mit, 09 Jun 1999:
> On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 03:31:37AM -0400, Dave Cinege wrote:
> > FYI this extact thread took place several months ago.
> >
> > Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > > But I feel that trying to be too politically correct is a much worse
> > > disease than =any= amount of profanity, and I'm personally much happier
> > > seeing the output of a grep like the above than I would be trying to
> > > clean it up in the name of PC.
> >
> > So am I.
> >

What�s profanity? Ask a little child what profanity is,
it won�t know it, because profanity is created by society.
But Linux is our world, where society has nothing to do.
Why shouldn�t we use words that describe things so precisely?

I like my blasphemous life, free of reins from society.

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