[Intermernet]

Yeah, but then again I love occasionally coming across the rant of some angry dev in source comments (see http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/ for an analysis of profanity in the linux kernel source).

Compare that with the source of Win2k (http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/15/71552/7795) where there were apparently "a dozen or so "fucks" and "shits", and hundreds of "craps"."

It seems greater stability is achieved when devs are allowed to express themselves in comments.

[ryalfalpha]

Oh yes, in source & commits it's fair game! I'm talking more about editorial content that might have been outsourced. E.g. how-to articles for a company product or articles written in-house that are localised by an external vendor. These things need to be quite clean!