On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 12:10:08PM +0000, Ben Armstrong wrote: > > Will debian for women, minority women, white males, and so forth > > be next? > > How does being a woman, a minority, or of a certain race change your > computer using needs? Young kids are cognitively, socially, technically > in an early stage of development that has special considerations. When > you look in your computer games store, do you see a woman's section? A > gay section? A white section? Black section? Take a good look at the > world around you. Kids have special needs. The stuff that we make for > kids to use is *different* than for adults. (Shock! Horror! Pull it off > the shelves! Ageism! Censorship!) I may well work on Debian for the Blind at some point. How discriminatory of me! ;> -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian Linux developer http://tank.debian.net GnuPG key pub 1024D/DCF9DAB3 sub 2048g/3F9C2A43 http://www.debian.org 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 <danpat> Omnic: bloody newzealanders <Omnic> danpat: put a sock in it <danpat> heh :) <knghtbrd> making fun of .nz'ers is different---they're all weird * knghtbrd hides <Omnic> hrmph
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