Sad MCPs in Free Software circles [was Re: [Sderby] Helen, please come]

[Steve Tickle]

On Friday, December 08, 2006 21:55:57, Richard Smedley 
<smedley358 at btinternet.com> wrote:

> I have no idea how well you know the two women to whom you
> are referring, nor whether they'd find your comments funny -
> I will assume that that is how you meant them to be - but I will
> say that if my daughters, or any of their friends, had read them while
> considering coming to a LUG meeting they would most certainly
> have been put off wasting their time with it. As would most of the
> female hackers with whom I have worked in the past decade.

It was a joke.

I was having an equal dig at us blokes too if you'd care to read 
properly what I wrote.

I'd be the first to acknowledge there are plenty of women far more 
skilled with computers in general and Linux in particular than I am.

It's the weekend. Chill a little and be happy.
-- 
Steve