Sharp: Closing a door [LWN.net]

Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 5, 2015 17:27 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Sharp: Closing a door by dlang
Parent article: Sharp: Closing a door

> The current Kernel development team is extremely diverse, with the one possible exception of the plumbing between the legs of the programmers

Gender is far more than "plumbing between legs" and is an important aspect of said diversity. I wouldn't call the current group extremely diverse in the absence of it.

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Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 5, 2015 17:37 UTC (Mon) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (1 responses)

> Gender is far more than "plumbing between legs" and is an important aspect of said diversity. I wouldn't call the current group extremely diverse in the absence of it.

The current kernel developers come from all sorts of backgrounds, all sorts of economic histories, and from a large number of cultrures and countries around the world.

I think that it's far more diverse than what you would get in any company that hired from people who live/grew up in any one area, even if that company had a exact 51%/49% female/male ratio.

Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 5, 2015 17:40 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

It is far more diverse is some areas. In gender diversity, not so much. Reducing it to "plumbing between legs" doesn't help at all.