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.
(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.)