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Easter eggs and free software

Easter eggs and free software

Posted Feb 9, 2006 21:52 UTC (Thu) by mst@mellanox.co.il (guest, #27097)
Parent article: Easter eggs and free software

> When the code police start going after easter eggs, humorous diagnostics
> (the kernel still has several variants of the "peripheral is on fire"
> message)

This might be historical, not humorous. Look here:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=102893...

Also, look here: "Humor In Kernel Code":
http://kerneltrap.org/node/542/


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