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OMG - another one for the annals of ridiculous feminist claims: "The free nature of open source also leads to inequity. Open source is dominated by men, and pe
by misslibby 5y ago
OMG - another one for the annals of ridiculous feminist claims:
"The free nature of open source also leads to inequity. Open source is dominated by men, and people who don't have as much leisure time or stability might be less likely to contribute to open source when there's no compensation involved."
So an article lamenting the horrible lives of FOSS open source developers who work for almost nothing then turns around and blames the same OS developers for driving women out of tech by working for free.
Never mind that women tend to be paid by their husbands, so they would have lots of spare time for FOSS development.
- DiabloD3 5y agoBoth what you quote and what you said are both asinine: I've met a lot of female FOSS developers, several of them have worked their ways into management positions at major companies. The era of pretending FOSS is a sausage party is over, and the use of this as a talking point needs to end.
- misslibby 5y agoSo what of what I said is asinine? I only refer to the claims made by the article. I'd say calling FOSS a sausage fest is asinine.