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Inside the OpenSolaris Source Code
An anonymous reader writes "Ten million lines of code and not a single profanity? Is that really possible? Apparently, yes, says OpenSolaris community manager Jim Grisanzio. He said even before Sun filtered the code, it was relatively free of profanity. 'They went through the code for a great many things,' he said, 'and I'm sure they cleaned a word or two. Or three.' But a careful look through the code will reveal some programmers' frustration." From the article: "The most embarassing comment came from a developer of the GRUB project who went only by the name of 'Gord'. 'This function is truly horrid,' he wrote. 'We try opening the device, then severely abuse the GEOMETRY->flags field to pass a file descriptor to biosdisk. Thank God nobody's looking at this comment, or my reputation would be ruined.'"
well, now that you have read it and corrupted yourself, you can NEVER contribute to locking algorithms in linux or you will violate their clean-room license restriction and get your ass sued from here to next tuesday, along with giving Linus another whole set of legal problems to deal with from stolen code.
Isn't Slowaris just a rip-off of BSD Unix? I hardly think they have cause to go around suing anybody. Not that that would stop them.
When you are doing a bid do having a conference after winnign one do you sit down and say,
Yeah, we can code that fucking system no problem. I mean shit man it may be hard as shit but we can meet that deadline. What we need to know is why the fuck did you want that in there. Can't we just get rid of this shit and move this over here. Fuck man, it makes more sense.
I don't think so.
Er, yes? Why wouldn't you say that, other than the grammatical errors which are probably because you can't speak English properly.