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Developer Misinterprets Linux Code of Conduct, Suggests Replacing F-Word with 'Hug' (neowin.net)
Seeking compliance with Linux's new Code of Conduct, Intel software engineer Jarkko Sakkinen recently requested comments on a set of changes to kernel code comments which Neowin described as "replacing the F-word with 'hug'. "
80 comments quickly followed on the Linux Kernel Maintainer's List: Several contributors responded to the alterations calling them insane. One wondered if Sakkinen was just trying to make a joke, and another called it censorship and said he'd refuse to apply any sort of patches like this to the code he's in charge of...
Some of the post-change comments read "Some Athlon laptops have really hugged PST tables", "If you don't see why, please stay the hug away from my code", and "Only Sun can take such nice parts and hug up the programming interface".
Eventually LWN.net publisher Jonathan Corbet deflated most of the controversy by pointing out that Linux's new Code of Conduct applies to future comments but clearly indicates that it does not apply explicitly to past comments.
And Jarkko Sakkinen acknowledged that he had missed that part of the discussion.
80 comments quickly followed on the Linux Kernel Maintainer's List: Several contributors responded to the alterations calling them insane. One wondered if Sakkinen was just trying to make a joke, and another called it censorship and said he'd refuse to apply any sort of patches like this to the code he's in charge of...
Some of the post-change comments read "Some Athlon laptops have really hugged PST tables", "If you don't see why, please stay the hug away from my code", and "Only Sun can take such nice parts and hug up the programming interface".
Eventually LWN.net publisher Jonathan Corbet deflated most of the controversy by pointing out that Linux's new Code of Conduct applies to future comments but clearly indicates that it does not apply explicitly to past comments.
And Jarkko Sakkinen acknowledged that he had missed that part of the discussion.
If seeing the F-word in the Linux source code is a bit too much for you, then perhaps you'd be better off making yet another set of pretty icons for GNOME or KDE.
I can't hugging believe this...
#DeleteChrome
I'm glad to see that the code of conduct is resulting such good use of developer time.
These sad, sad people clearly need a hug.
Intent of controlling speech until the project turns into a dystopian nightmare? as soon this kind of people get the hands on the hammer, everything goes to hell.
I seem examples on all the sides, even non political sides where it's the same.
The thin skinned guy gets the control over the thing and starts to overreach more and more until the thing is dead.
Even places like chans can fall for this, with a guy wanting to "combat the cancer" ending up permabanning people for grammar errors or liking the wrong video game console.
You can bloody well go fuck yourself for trying to equate colorful language with racist speech.
The intent of controlling other people's speech is pretty fucking bad.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
in the town square with the cardboard sign that said Free Hugs.
Shouldn't that be Libre Hugs?
Bullshit, we don't hate female coders, we hate having incompetent coders on our team.
Good female coders also hate fixing incompetents shit, can and do cuss like sailors.
How do you tell someone's sex over the internet anyhow? rChromosomeTest.exe?
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'