LWN.net Logo

Quotes of the week

Quotes of the week

Posted Jul 19, 2012 23:14 UTC (Thu) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by nevets
Parent article: Quotes of the week

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.


(Log in to post comments)

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.)

Copyright © 2013, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds