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From: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org>
To: alan <alan@clueserver.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Insults in the kernel-sources
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:07:22 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40C8F7BA.1060700@linuxmail.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0406101316480.16923-100000@www.fnordora.org>

alan wrote:
> Turns out the Microsoft code has just as much profanity, if not more, than 
> the Linux kernel source.  (Of course, they have more to swear about...)

The amount of profanity in the Microsoft code is irrelevant, unless you want to base your ethics on 
what people do. If you think it through, you'll see that's a very shaky foundation for determining 
right and wrong.

Regards,

Nigel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-06-11  0:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-10 18:53 Insults in the kernel-sources Tobias Hirning
2004-06-10 19:02 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-06-10 19:16   ` areversat
2004-06-10 19:11 ` Leon Woestenberg
2004-06-10 19:23 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-06-10 20:19   ` alan
2004-06-10 21:26     ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-06-10 23:17     ` walt
2004-06-10 22:44       ` alan
2004-06-11  0:36         ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-06-10 23:52       ` Vadim Lobanov
2004-06-10 23:58         ` Tim Hockin
2004-06-11  0:34           ` James Buchanan
2004-06-10 23:47             ` alan
2004-06-11  0:38             ` Vadim Lobanov
2004-06-11  0:07     ` Nigel Cunningham [this message]
2004-06-10 23:41       ` alan
2004-06-11  8:45         ` Profanity " L A Walsh
2004-06-11  7:02       ` Insults " Måns Rullgård
2004-06-14 13:46   ` Tobias Hirning
2004-06-14 19:39     ` Patrick Finnegan
2004-06-10 19:23 ` viro
2004-06-10 20:04 ` Paul P Komkoff Jr
2004-06-11 15:43 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-06-12  2:48 ` Rik van Riel
2004-06-12  6:37   ` John Bradford
2004-06-12 12:47     ` Richard B. Johnson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-10 19:43 Sean Fao
2004-06-11 15:56 ` nardelli

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