Re: women in debian
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 04:03:51PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> my experience in the CS world is that women find hacking on minutiae
> because it is fun quite boring actually. Most of them are more of the
> "does it work, good enough". As I said, this is from my own college and
> work experience. Men in computers seem willing to devote hours to
> trivial matters or work hard and long while many bitch and complain. Few
> women in computers I have met cared.
This actually sounds to me like a fairly good description of the
distinction between a hacker and a non-hacker. Most male programmers I
know don't fit this description either.
Free Software has been very much driven by people with a hacker mentality.
Non-hackers generally don't have any motivation to make something work
without getting specific reward from it (like a paycheck). The hacker is
the one who is willing to spend hours working on something, just because
they know that it can be done better.
Dave Brown
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