Thanks to John Gowin
for this link.
“Warning: Dirty words could be lurking under the hood of your
operating system. And Linus Torvalds likes it that way.”
“The creator of Linux, one of the most successful open source
programs ever, told his disciples Wednesday not to worry about
profanity in the Linux code base.”
“‘Profanity and bad taste can be fine,’ wrote Torvalds in an
email sent to Linux developers.”
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