Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jun 1999 23:54:34 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Michael B. Trausch" <> | Subject | Re: Profanity in the Linux Kernel?!?!? |
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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). > > > -- > .--------------------------------------------------------------. > | Scott Jaderholm suicydl@phreaker.net | > | | > |"Debian's non-commercial Linux distribution shows again that | > |Internet-enabled, cooperative software development can produce| > |software of the very highest quality." Linus Travolds | > `--------------------------------------------------------------' > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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