Inappropriate content in Fedora Core

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Jeff wrote:

> I saw an article in Wired magazine recently that shows the swear words in the 
> linux kernel alone.
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> Here is the link to the findings
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> http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/
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> 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."

That's the source... comments don't get compiled into the running code...

> 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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