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Women don't have the same passion for open source men do? Really??

Women don't have the same passion for open source men do? Really??

Posted Aug 27, 2009 23:28 UTC (Thu) by Skud (guest, #59840)
In reply to: Women don't have the same passion for open source men do? Really?? by BrucePerens
Parent article: FSF to host a mini-summit on Women in Free Software

I don't think that's true. I think the problem is that Debian doesn't have Flash support. Why don't we address that first?

(Do I need to put emoticons here to make this clearer? Would ";)" help?)


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Women don't have the same passion for open source men do? Really??

Posted Aug 27, 2009 23:46 UTC (Thu) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510) [Link]

:-)

Well, I would swear that when I ran gnash as a mozilla plugin, I saw the not-HTML menus and animations that were supposed to use flash. Just slowly, and using a lot of memory.

Women don't have the same passion for open source men do? Really??

Posted Sep 6, 2009 8:09 UTC (Sun) by mdz@debian.org (subscriber, #14112) [Link]

Bruce, if you read the past few messages carefully, I think you'll find that
Skud was making an analogy, mirroring the ignorance, and unwillingness to
listen, which is so often displayed by men when this subject comes up.

Your line of argument sounds, to someone with a working knowledge of
feminism, just as absurd as Skud's line of questioning about Debian.

With apologies for spoiling the joke by spelling it out...

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