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The commenter is talking about their mum, an existing person, not mums in general and certainly not your mother.
by rndgermandude 11y ago
The commenter is talking about their mum, an existing person, not mums in general and certainly not your mother.
- ryanlol 11y agoEven if he was talking about moms in general, it wouldn't be sexist. It's just an example, it doesn't matter if "my mom" is replaced with "my dad", "my parents" or perhaps "my dog".
- cm2187 11y agoAnd in my particular case I was refering to an old lady, a brillant and successful physician, but who like many people of that generation has no fascination for computers, and use them as long as they are simple and intuitive. Exactly like she would use a car, without any appetite to fix or tweak it herself. To go mainstream, linux needs to appeal to that kind of users.