Well done that man!
Jokes in comments are what helps to preserve a sense of the human beings behind the software and its creation. They help to date the code beyond simply its coding style. Glibc and other projects following similar ideals exist on many levels. As a PRODUCT providing functionality that can be used freely (as in freedom) and as something beyond a product showing people the ideals behind the project through its code, comments and associated licensing.
Silicon chip makers make ther mark on their creations also. There are websites decicated to showing the creativity and humor in this so called silicon art. Do we open up all microchips and erase such works just because thay are "silly" and "non-functional"?
Should we enter caves and remove cave paintings that might offend on a sexual or animal rights level? The cave paintings serve no purpose and could offend. Why keep them?
Removing the human element from comments added to publicly developed software created specifically for political reasons seems to be very weird to me.
Hacker culture is more than just holywood hackers infecting a mainframe with animated viruses that jump about the big boss' screen while he shouts at his evil minions to stop the cool teen hackers trying to save the orphanage. It is much more than that. Throughout the history of computers the creators of the hardware and associated programmers drove much of their research further by HAVING FUN. To the point that these machines were employed in makiing model railways work, or little tunes coming out of a simple audio output leading perhaps to speech synthesis.
We have no museum for this stuff. It all exists in the code. You want to wipe the internet clean?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
