women, get into IT... or else
women, get into IT... or else
Posted Sep 29, 2007 20:08 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304)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)
I know the technogeek can sit there on their throne of "3lit3dom" and spout about how brilliant he/she is and that the mere mortal is only capable of poultry featsEven the most flamy and brusque variety of free software developer doesn't do *that*. I've never seen, never even heard of any free software developers doing that. We're hardly a humble bunch, and definitely take pride in our work, but there is a reason why the l33t rubbish emerged from the cracker community: free software developers don't do it.
One major reason why a lot of 'normal people' and particularly 'business decision makers' get on badly with techies is probably because the normal people want 'solutions dammit', and the techies have other priorities as well: maintainability, technical elegance, the 'neat hack'; a scary number of 'normal people' find it totally incomprehensible that anything could be considered more important than getting whateveritis done on time and under budget.
(Personally I think these people are incredibly shallow. I mean, what is making money anyway? Incrementing one value: useful for other things but still just one value. If I wanted to spend my time obsessed by a single incrementing value then I'd spend my time on arcade games. Instead, I spend it, uh, commenting on LWN...)