[antiRepublicrat]

That isn't exactly true... FreeBSD doesn't let amateurs commit, but you can get your patch in Linux fairly easily if there isn't a competing patch especially if it is for hardware that isn't widely used.

You're right, drivers are a good exception.

I would have gotten canned so fast for including something like that in production code it would have made my head spin.

Did you read any of the comments for the leaked Windows code? That was pretty funny too.

[Paridel]

Did you read any of the comments for the leaked Windows code? That was pretty funny too.

No, I had amble opportunity to, there were a couple copies on my school LAN among other places, but I figured it would be better if I left that code alone. But unfortunately I have a feeling that no matter what large software product you looked at the code for there would be examples of poor programming (or at least poor commenting).

That being said, I really do wish I had gotten a look at those comments you are talking about. ;-)

-paridel