[Ilugc] Women in Free Software Community

  • From: sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rahul Sundaram)
  • Date: Sun Aug 3 15:54:10 2008

senthilraja P wrote:


Open source needs strategic mindset..  women generally lack that strategic
sense..  this is my humble opinion..

Statements such as these are good examples why. Who would want to 
participate among ignorant patronizing people who are not ashamed to 
paint broad brushes?

Maybe you can learn history of computing a bit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

Or even the current Linux industry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Randal
http://www.valhenson.org/

Many others listed in

http://www.linuxchix.org/women-open-source-free-software-bibliography.html
http://linuxchix.org.in/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Rahul


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