Sexist pigs, how dare they

Microsoft Apologizes For Inserting Naughty Phrase Into Linux Kernel 703
Posted by timothy on Thursday July 19, @03:32PM
from the brogrammers-at-work dept.
netbuzz writes "Microsoft has apologized and promised to rectify the fact that one of its developers slipped a sexist phrase into Linux kernel code supporting Microsoft's HyperV virtualization environment. In that code, the magic constant passed through to the hypervisor reads '0xB16B00B5,' or a slightly camouflaged 'BIG BOOBS.' After Linux developer/blogger Matthew Garrett criticized Microsoft for the stunt, the predictable debate over sexism in the technology world ensued. Microsoft issued a statement to Network World apologizing and added, 'We have submitted a patch to fix this issue and the change will be published in a future release of the kernel.'"
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Typical Worse is Better. That wouldn't have happened with the Right Thing: 'hypervisor-symbol

>>2
'hypervisor

Doesn't this break binary compatibility?

Ow, c'mon. Who's the man who snitched this to a woman ?

>>5
It was probably a woman who did it in the first place. A man wouldn't have thought "BOOBS" would be offensive enough.

0xDEFECA7E

0xCAFEBABE

There's my new magic number for everything I will do from now on.  Unless someone finds something more offensive, that is.

http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2991199&cid=40706027
Sure, we hire good coders, but we hire good people, and that's above your coding ability. We have a great environment, and we don't want to spoil it with PC bullshit. We are animals, and so are most of our employees, and we'd like to keep it that way. And you wouldn't believe how much of an awesome environment you can get when people can be themselves, and not worry about what they can and can't do/say/wear/express/whatever. That's why we only hire non-religious people, people who aren't afraid of bad language, rough attitudes, bad smells, and that usually translates to people that isn't afraid of hard work either.

At my company, we troll each other badly, there are no limits, there is no respect for anybody, not even for the owners (my associate and me). Yes, when I fuck up my employees feel free to insult me, and I couldn't be happier about it. I enjoy the same freedom. We get together once a week for bbq and zombie movies. We have a basketball court in the back, and we play rough. Believe it or not, people is actually happy to come in to work on monday, because they feel fucking free. Many of them (specially those that are married) feel more free than they do at home. In our company, the lowest tech calls the CEO a fag for using apple products, and we all laugh, and that's just fine. Getting offended is GREAT. In our culture, this idea that people have a right to not be offended has grown big lately. It's plain wrong. Being offended makes you feel alive, challenges your preconceptions, and makes you overall a better person. It sparks change, and that is always a good thing.
This.  If you hire sensitive little pieces of shit, don't be surprised when they start complaining about everything.

>>10
Back to /b/.

>>11
I've been here for four years, dipshit.

>>10
unprofessionalism is good

>>12
You're still a newfag, but that's beside the point since no one gives a flying fucking fart about how long you have been spamming bullcrap here.

>>13
Didn't you get the memo? Worse is better. Inefficiency is the new efficiency and stupid is the new smart.

>>14
Well then, fuck off and die you little cockpustule I fucking hate you.

>>16
ok

>>10
We have a great environment, and we don't want to spoil it with PC bullshit.
Me neither. That's why I only use MIPS, ARM and PowerPC.

>>18
MIPS
Thanks for reminding me to bump the Lemote Yeeloong-8133 thread.