What puts women off FOSS?
What puts women off FOSS?
Posted Oct 1, 2007 13:52 UTC (Mon) by peace (guest, #10016)In reply to: What puts women off FOSS? by tuxchick
Parent article: To Sir, with Love: How To Get More Women Involved in Open Source (O'ReillyNet)
Could you please explain how you know that the threats originated from a contributer to FLOSS? You painting the community with a very large brush given that the Internet is open to anyone and nothing is preventing crazy people from latching on anywhere they choose.
Let me suggest this: There really is nothing wrong with the FLOSS community. The problems that women are finding are do to the larger acceptance of FLOSS in the world and the flocking of all sorts of disturbed individuals to areas where they can easily get attention or strike out in pitiful attempts at having any power at all in the world.
I really have no idea how an actual FLOSS _contributor_ could find the time or inclination to send out death threats to anyone. What would be the point? Don't you think it is more likely we are dealing with your run of the mill jackass here and that it is not likely to be a central problem with all the blood thirsty sociopathic FLOSS developers so prevalent in society?
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