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Re:Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code ov... by ctde on Monday June 16, 2025 @01:43PM (#44291661)
the point being that there was a time (some greybeards might remember) where contributing to the linux kernel wasn't "work" but a fun hobby
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Re:Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code ov... by alistairSH on Monday June 16, 2025 @01:47PM (#44291691)
Sure, but that time was nearly 30 years ago. Linux has been "mainstream" since at least August 1999.
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Re:Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code ov... by ctde on Monday June 16, 2025 @01:50PM (#44291715)
people like me contributed their freetime afterwards still
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Re:Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code ov... by BeetleB on Monday June 16, 2025 @02:17PM (#44291996)
People still do. I think the point he's making is that the bulk of the kernel's source coming from people paid to do it has been a thing for probably over 20 years.
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Re:Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code ov... by nomel on Monday June 16, 2025 @04:35PM (#44293172)
Any data for this?
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Re:Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code ov... by betaby on Monday June 16, 2025 @05:40PM (#44293654)
Yes, here for example https://lwn.net/Articles/915435/
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Re:Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code ov... by nomel on Monday June 16, 2025 @09:31PM (#44294936)
Appreciate it! I tried, but couldn't come up with the right search term.

So, total being between around 60%!

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Re:Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code ov... by arp242 on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @03:17AM (#44296482)
Why August 1999? Seems quite specific?
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Re:Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code ov... by alistairSH on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @08:33AM (#44298359)
RedHat's IPO. Seemed like as good a date as any to anchor "when Linux went mainstream". I'm sure there are other dates that are arguably at least as good here.
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Re:Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code ov... by arp242 on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @01:24PM (#44301490)
Ah right, that roughly tracks. Just wasn't obvious where "August 1999" came from.

Kind of amazing timeline in hindsight by the way; Linux was "only" 8 years old at that point.

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