women, get into IT... or else
women, get into IT... or else
Posted Sep 29, 2007 15:54 UTC (Sat) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)In reply to: women, get into IT... or else by wyrmfire
Parent article: To Sir, with Love: How To Get More Women Involved in Open Source (O'ReillyNet)
Kind of seems superfluous to want to make software and then not want to promote it or teach about it.
I know, I know, who cares, right?
I think you're not right. Makig software is fun. Promoting or teaching something is definitely not fun. At least in my opinion - it's not about caring or don't caring, it's about having fun.
Lets ask someone from the audience here.
"Anyone here ever asked an innocently stupid question in an IRC channel or on the newsgroups and been flamed to hell?"
It's maybe my "problem" that I only visit civilizated places, but I don't remember ever being flamed for an innocent question. Actually I can't even think about a scenario like this: the linux newbies list I read has a strict no-RTFM policy, but even the "non-newbies" list carries very little RTFM answer, only occasionally a "please go to the newbies list with this question". Anyone who breaks these rules could end up in the spamdb.
Maybe a developer list could be different, because a leading developer can't be put into the spamdb, but I'd presume if someone subscribes to a developer list, can't ask a so stupid question.