In the Linux kernel, the word fuck was replaced by hug

After Linus Torvalds decided to withdraw from the project in September 2018, the Linux Foundation Board of Directors adopted a new code of conduct for Linux kernel developers - the Code of Conduct (CoC), in order to "solve discrimination problems and improve the emotional environment among developers."

The new rules had many supporters, but also detractors, who were not at all attracted by the idea of ​​such “benevolence”, appeared. Hot debates flared up. On November 30, these disputes reached a new level, because one of the authoritative developers, Jarkko Sakkinen from Intel, began to apply the code of conduct in practice - and corrected several comments in the kernel code , replacing the word fuck (polysemous word) with hug ("hugging") .

In total, Jarkko rolled out 15 patches , replacing the comments that various developers had left in the code for many years.

The result was rather strange and difficult to translate pearls like these:
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“IOC3 is hugging hugged beyond belief”,

“Only Sun can take this programming interface like this. Good job guys ... ”,

“Hugging broken ABI”,

“Avoid hugging up the memory controller (somehow)”,

“Hug, we are miserable poor guys ...”

Several developers commented on the changes, calling them "insane." One suggested that Sakkinen was trying to joke, and the other called it censorship and said that he would refuse to apply any patches like this to the code for which he was responsible. Another author said that he does not object to the changes, but some comments are difficult to understand now. This opinion was joined by another author from the Netherlands: he said that after the replacement, the comments became difficult to understand for non-native speakers of the English language (before everything was very clear).

The changes affected a total of 33 lines of over 3.3 million lines of comments in the Linux kernel. I wonder what other words will be removed from the Linux kernel as part of an anti-discrimination campaign and what other changes are coming. Probably on the mailing list we no longer read Linus Torvalds' colorful sayings.