[Gllug] Hi!

[Isabell Long]

2009/6/28 Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk>:
> On 27 Jun 2009, Jose Luis Martinez stated:
>
>> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 9:06 AM, <isabell121 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> My distribution of choice is Ubuntu,
>>
>> Oh dear, don't say that loud, the ogres around here are going to hear you ....
>
> It's basically like Debian.
>
> (are the ogres coming for me too now?)

Yeah, it's built on Debian anyway isn't it?
>
>>> and I'm female.
>
> Now on some free software lists *that* can be a risky thing to admit,
> I'm afraid. I wish it wasn't so...

Oh dear.
>
> e.g. this horrendous thread <http://lwn.net/Articles/252073/> has many
> stunning examples of otherwise excellent contributors revealing
> themselves to be sexist twits. And there are a *lot* of them, and they
> come out of the closet whenever gender issues come up, and they seem to
> consider 'someone being female' to be a gender issue :(

Heh, I thought it was best to mention it.

Isabell.

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