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Yet another male perspective on women in free softwareYet another male perspective on women in free softwarePosted Oct 4, 2007 12:38 UTC (Thu) by mmarkov (guest, #4978)In reply to: Yet another male perspective on women in free software by i3839 Parent article: Yet another male perspective on women in free software I'm pretty sure you can't tell my gender/height/hair colour/etc, because all you know is my obscure random name. So is the internet a perfect world? No. I meant that when a group of people is trying to accomplish something together, ideally it is one's quality of work that should matter, not one's gender. That is what the grandparent post said.
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Yet another male perspective on women in free software Posted Oct 6, 2007 11:34 UTC (Sat) by i3839 (guest, #31386) [Link] My point was that that already seems to be the case, but that the problems are more likely related to other things, like hostility, politics and other power games and generic immaturity going on too often.
Yet another male perspective on women in free software Posted Oct 12, 2007 14:59 UTC (Fri) by obi (guest, #5784) [Link] By judging someone purely on their technical merits, and not at all on their (lack of) social skills, you risk losing way more people (and their technical expertise) than you gain by tolerating this person.
It's a trade-off, but a lot of people don't see it that way.
The problem isn't that everyone should be treated equally (that should be a given, but it's true that some can't even manage that). The problem is that everyone should not be mistreated equally. Allowing abusive behaviour and telling people not to be thin-skinned, will only leave people that have an affinity or high tolerance for abuse.
I don't believe there's a need for censorship or banning or anything like that. I simply think the problem would be a lot better if people were to just speak up whenever someone uses unnecessarily abusive language.
Yet another male perspective on women in free software Posted Oct 16, 2007 0:57 UTC (Tue) by einhverfr (guest, #44407) [Link] I think that the key is that we shouldn't be judging *people* on technical merits but rather contributions. And helping people contribute.
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