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

CaT (cat@zip.com.au)
Wed, 9 Jun 1999 17:41:32 +1000


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.
>
> When is the last time you ever heard a politician 'swear'?
> Not a piss, shit, cock, cunt, or pussy, out of a one of them,
> and yet they still manage to FUCK people everyday.

You've obviously not heard an aussie polititian... :)

> RULE OF GOD: Never trust someone that never curses.
> (FWIW I am very trust worthy. : >)

:)

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