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Quotes of the weekQuotes of the weekPosted Jul 19, 2012 18:55 UTC (Thu) by nevets (subscriber, #11875)In reply to: Quotes of the week by Jandar Parent article: Quotes of the week
The problem is that this is code from Microsoft, and this was no coincidence that B16B00B5 resembles something perverted. It really looks to be a slap in the face to Linux by Microsoft.
As I stated in the thread, what else would you expect within a file called hyPERV_vmbus.c.
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Quotes of the week Posted Jul 19, 2012 19:18 UTC (Thu) by Jandar (subscriber, #85683) [Link]
Oh, I thought this number had technical origin. Something named *perv* from this company is adequate, but how it comes Microsoft associates with linux something which many people find desirable? ;-)
Quotes of the week Posted Jul 19, 2012 23:14 UTC (Thu) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link]
I personally thought it was rather juvenile, as opposed to perverted. Stuff like this only contributes to the low participation rate of women in open source.
While it came from Microsoft, I doubt it was intended specifically to make Linux look bad. I rather suspect it was the result of a programmer with some awful habits. I wonder how many other "funny" hex constants are floating around in that programmer's code.
Quotes of the week Posted Jul 20, 2012 12:27 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Well, it meant that Paolo Bonzini and Matthew Garrett made national news: <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18922629>.
(Given the number of worthwhile things both have done that have received no publicity outside the free software community at all, it's depressing yet typical that they get it for *this* of all things.)
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