Fortune had a really good article on how MySQL is building a commercial open source company . However, buried in the article is a typo that I expect was introduced by Fortune’s editors.
It’s not as if MySQL workers get some perverse kick out of catching colleagues goofing off, though. They know how common it is for e-mail or voice messages to be misconstrued, so they watch what they say. Fire off a dumb question to one of MySQL’s mailing lists, and you are likely get back the terse rebuke “RTFM” – read the freakin’ manual.
Dear Fortune Editors: RTFM means “Read The Fucking Manual.” Even Wikipedia says it , so it must be true, although they seem to assert that “Read The Freakin’ Manual” in an acceptable substitute to avoid using the expletive “Fucking.” But seriously guys, everyone knows that Freakin’ = Fucking in this case – why mess with one of all the all time great initialisms of the programming universe?