Why Women Don't FLOSS | Linux Today

Why Women Don’t FLOSS

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 17, 2008

“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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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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