Re: <nettime> Linux illegal in Australia?

[scotartt <scot@systemx.autonomous.org>]

This is just crap; occasional foul language usually only rates an "M"
rating on Television -- literature would be regarded even more
tolerantly I believe -- the internet censorship laws as much as I oppose
them really wouldn't have anything to say about such matters I would
think.

Really, such --hysteria-- leads us down no fruitful paths, and diverts
from the main issues at stake.

scot.


Slobodan Markovic wrote:
> 
>      [orig to internodium <internodium@material.net>]
> 
> --- This is a forwarded message ---
> From: Jamie McCarthy <jamie@mccarthy.org>
> Date: Thursday, 03. June 1999, 16:31:33
> Subject: Re: Linux illegal in Australia?
> 
> =============== Original message text ================
> Lizard wrote:
> 
> >Apparently, the source code for Linux contains a number of repetitions
> >of the 'f-word' in comments. This would, technically, make it a crime
> >to host it in Australia, or even to download it.
> >This leads me to conclude that the Australian law is some sort of
> >Microsoft plot.
> 
> Also it appears once in a string output to the console under some kind
> of error condition.  At least in 2.0.36.
> 
> $ cd /usr/src/linux
> $ find . -type f | xargs grep -in fuck
> ./arch/sparc/kernel/process.c:292:      /* fuck me plenty */
> ./arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace.c:269:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
> ./arch/sparc/kernel/sunos_ioctl.c:56:   /* Binary compatibility is good
> American knowhow fuckin' up. */
> ./drivers/block/cmd640.c:16: *  These chips are basically fucked by design,
> and getting this driver
> ./drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.c:4611:   CURRENT=req->next;      /* task can fuck it
> up         GTL  */
> ./fs/ufs/ufs_super.c:184:               printk("ufs_read_super: fucking Sun
> blows me\n");
> ./lib/vsprintf.c:9: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up
> :-)
> 
> But would this really prohibit import to/possession in/export from
> Australia?
> 
> --
>  Jamie McCarthy
> 
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