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Reasons women avoid open source

Reasons women avoid open source

Posted Aug 28, 2009 18:34 UTC (Fri) by jordanb (guest, #45668)
In reply to: Reasons women avoid open source by BrucePerens
Parent article: FSF to host a mini-summit on Women in Free Software

Or it's a sign of enough self-confidence to be self-deprecating, and enough knowledge to counteract the Dunning-kruger effect? :P

Those 'Dummies' books are trash of course, but that's true of 90 percent of tech books.


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Reasons women avoid open source

Posted Aug 28, 2009 18:39 UTC (Fri) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510) [Link]

Yes, but since the goal of such lists is to lower the barriers to participation, asking for the participant to be self-actualized first is not productive. :-)

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