Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Jun 2004 08:47:46 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Insults in the kernel-sources |
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On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, John Bradford wrote:
> Quote from Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>: > > On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Tobias Hirning wrote: > > > > > have you ever tried a > > > grep "insult" -i -r ./* > > > in the sourcetree of the kernel? > > > > Yeah, isn't it great ? > > > > Hours and hours of fun, learning more about > > crappy hardware than you ever wanted to know. > > > > > So do and think about, because the you can find to much of > > > insults in the sources. > > > > Too much? Considering how amazingly bad some > > stuff is (especially hardware bugs) I'm quite > > surprised there aren't more of those amusing > > profanities throughout the source code. > > > > Maybe I should start hacking device drivers, > > so I can legitimately add them ? > > > > What do you think ? > > Patches specifically to add insults are probably 2.7 material :-). > > John.
Gotta be careful. SCO probably patented most of them ;^).
Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.26 on an i686 machine (5570.56 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
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