Stig Brautaset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 29/01/2002 (00:54) : > > If you don't like it, don't use it. Some people[1] are using a lot of > their (spare?) time to give the community a free desktop environment; I > say they are entitled to have a bit of fun.
But this is beside the point. The point is that a program should not do irradic things. It confuses/scares the user. The point that I react to this particular easter egg is that it can be misunderstood as a hacker attack or something similar. Usually you have to click on several keys at the wierdes places to provoke an easter egg. This one will happen if a certain random function results in 666. I'm using some of my spare time developing software that is free in the GPL sense, but I rather use the time finding that last bug, than introduce more by putting useless easter eggs into my code. But then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge.[1] [1] Hitch Hiker's Guide to The Galaxy (original radio play) -- Preben Randhol «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.»
