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Yet another male perspective on women in free software

Yet another male perspective on women in free software

Posted Oct 17, 2007 17:41 UTC (Wed) by einhverfr (guest, #44407)
In reply to: Yet another male perspective on women in free software by flewellyn
Parent article: Yet another male perspective on women in free software

The simple solution is to find a way to show who has been overtaken by such thinking that
serves nobody.

I have found that most of the jerks who mismanage software communities are also sexist.  The
problem is not what we as a society have regressed to but rather the fact that we give some
people way too much power.

I think that someone to start rating open source communities in terms of things like how
welcome women feel in the communities.


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