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Why Women Don't FLOSS
Jun 17, 2008, 18 :45 UTC (2 Talkback[s]) (7157 reads)

"Did you smile in reading this title? Maybe you did just like I did when I read Linus' post launching Linux for the first time:

"Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?

"Hackers' culture is fun, right? No big deal either if French Linux Magazine has a tradition of offering a 'Calendrier Debian' (a Debian calendar, commented here in Fr) to its readers at the end of the year. And yes there is a naked woman on it albeit not a full Playboy-style double page..."

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Stop propagating stupid female cliches o ...   And may I suggest a starting point?   
Rainer Weikusat
Jun 17, 2008, 19:23:38
 
Though the tangent about Asperger's  ...   decent summary   
Carla Schroder
Jun 18, 2008, 19:35:12
 
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