On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 12:27:43AM +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> H? David,
>
> Yes, it's a well known story about the "fuck" word on the kernel - people
> were very frustrated while developing the kernel for various platforms
> (specially Sparc 64) and they added this "fuck" thing (you'll find it mostly
> there). Linus refuse to accept any patch that will clear this - and he's
> right - it's people work, free expression ;)
IIRC one of the more compelling arguments in favor of removing
the words was that it made the kernel source code illegal to distribute
in a surprisingly large number of courtries... I'm glad it wasn't
enough :)
According to the graph, most of the rise in the popularity of "fuck"
is concentrated in the beginning of the 2.1 series. Now what
happened there... Oh yeah, the introduction of fine-grained SMP :)
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