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(somewhat off-topic) Sometimes FLOSS is put forward as the meritocracy in the world of software development, as opposed to big business ruled by bean-counters a
by dexen 16y ago
(somewhat off-topic) Sometimes FLOSS is put forward as the meritocracy in the world of software development, as opposed to big business ruled by bean-counters and arbitrary quotas. Yet when it comes to gender ratio, it's implied and/or assumed women and girls are driven out of FLOSS for some irrational reasons, and the gender ratio in the big business is the natural one. Why such assumption?
A honest question; as I don't know the reasons and reasoning behind all that.
- andrewvc 16y agoIt is a meritocracy in that simple projects often only have 1 person working on them. One would think, given that , there'd be more women involved, as there's no discrimination there.