Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Not a bible thumper. . . | Date | Mon, 22 Jul 1996 16:17:21 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Lex Spoon" <> |
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Khan Klatt wrote: > > In one paragraph you say you're against replacing curses with %(*^, and > in the very next, you say that reputable companies make an effort to take > them out when they DO distribute source. > > So, if we're going to make our source freely distributed, don't you think > we should have the same considerations that our friends at Sun or SGI or > BSDI do?
(not directed at Khan in particular)
The of a cooperation is to make money. The goal of politically correctness is ugly politics.
The goal of Linux should be to make a good OS, and vulgar comments make the source code friendlier to hacker-types. How many people here are honestly offended by vulgarity? Probably a large number, like myelf, actually PREFER it.
Lex
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