Microsoft: Sorry about "0xB16B00B5"

[Josh]

The world of the brogrammer is a vague and hazy place of stereotyped sex humor and pseudo-serious trend pieces. And earlier this year we determined that the brogrammer never was.

And yet... Microsoft had to make a public apology recently, after it was discovered that some sniveling, man-child coder had written BIG BOOBS into a piece of computer code that connects the Linux kernel to a Microsoft "virtualization" product. In fact, the offending characters were: oxB16B00B5. (Squint your eyes a little, you'll see.)

On his blog, Linux developer Matthew Garrett wrote:

"At the most basic level it's just straightforward childish humour, and the use of vaguely-English strings in magic hex constants is hardly uncommon. But it's also specifically male childish humour. Puerile sniggering at breasts contributes to the continuing impression that software development is a boys club where girls aren't welcome."

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[Cloq]

Sooo.. (reading the last sentence..) if MS coder's had put big wang in magic hex constants then girls would be welcomed in the boys club??

Damned if you do, damned if you don't..  

[Renegade]

Was the apology because some people don't have a sense of humour?

[zridling]

Why would Linux discriminate against big tittays? If this were the name of a distro, I dare say I'd install it right now, assuming the wallpaper was on topic!