Inappropriate content in Fedora Core

Jeff jeff at mindcloud.com
Tue Aug 10 22:17:20 UTC 2004


I saw an article in Wired magazine recently that shows the swear words in  
the linux kernel alone.

Here is the link to the findings

http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/

And here is a quote from Torvalds

If the locker-room talk worries the suits trying to make money off Linux,  
Linus Torvalds, the father of the OS, doesn't give a damn. "Profanity and  
bad taste can be fine," he wrote to developers in a 1999 email. The time  
to worry, he said, is "when the profanities start to occupy a noticeable  
amount of kernel space."

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 23:10:24 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak  
<kyrre at solution-forge.net> wrote:

> I am just wondering: could all this fuzz indicate a lack of quality
> control? I mean - i don't think knew that it was shipping the string
> "erect penis"...
>
> Ill always thought that RH read through all code they shipped - so no
> package could somhow place a backdoor on my system. Was i wrong?
>
>



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