I worked at STMicro for a while, and a neighboring team worked on Symbian support. I remember they had this weird coding standard that was essentially "why the fuck not?".

Now, over a decade later, I understand that they looked at the Symbian standard, and saw that anything goes.

8-space using the tab character is the Linux kernel standard, but the curly braces are closer to other coding standards.

It's not the 8-space I'm aghast about, but that every function body is indented by it.