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Re: Core KDE member about HIG^W female contributors



On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 08:24:18AM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 03:45:21PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> > >But damn, the idea that all of this is completely and utterly subordinate
> > >to your "clever coders" galls me. 
> > But writing and bug-finding /are/ subordinate though -- in the sense 
> > they only happen after the code's written...
> 
> I think the problem raises when such a 'subordination' is somehow given
> a rank by value.
> 
> It's normal to have jobs that are subordinate to each other, yet very
> important on themselves: the baker is subordinate to the miller, which
> in turn is subordinate to the farmer, but we don't usually value the
> miller or the farmer more than the baker.

The moment you start assigning values to people, instead of work,
you've lost.

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