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

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

CaTīs 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.
> >

Whatīs profanity? Ask a little child what profanity is,
it wonīt know it, because profanity is created by society.
But Linux is our world, where society has nothing to do.
Why shouldnīt we use words that describe things so precisely?

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

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