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Yet another male perspective on women in free software

Yet another male perspective on women in free software

Posted Oct 4, 2007 13:55 UTC (Thu) by lysse (subscriber, #3190)
In reply to: Yet another male perspective on women in free software by tzafrir
Parent article: Yet another male perspective on women in free software

Since comments cannot be edited after the fact here, I have to say that I cannot understand in the least how the post you made follows from the post you're replying to.


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Yet another male perspective on women in free software

Posted Oct 4, 2007 17:01 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

It's also notably odd, because the position he ascribes solely to open source people is strongly held by the free software world, as well. The `free software must be usable for all fields of endeavour' condition is considered critical by both (with the canonical example being using the stuff in the control software for baby-mulching machines).

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