On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:14:08AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/08/07 23:29, Amy Templeton wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [snip] > > > >> maybe you should educate them a little bit? A fem in the LUG > >> would have serious impact. I'm sure you could sway policy any ol' > >> way you wanted... > > > > Haha...flattering as that is, I doubt they'd be that easily swayed. > > Also, if they were...I'd hate it to be because of hormones rather > > than what I have to say. > > So young, so naive.
he he > > [snip] > >>> (I occasionally do try to increase the ranks of women GNU/Linux > >>> users in particular, since I'm the only one I know in real > >>> life), > > > >> my wife uses debian. Of course, she doesn't really know what it > >> is, but then again, she uses it and is happy! So's my mom too. > >> And no, I don't live in the basement. In fact she's using > >> u*&^*^$tu on a power pc mac and hasn't needed any tech support in > >> a good solid year. So you're not alone. > > > >> Oh yeah! My *three* daughters use debian too. And they love it > >> because I told them to do whatever they want cause they can't > >> break it. > > > > *Claps hands in nerdly excitement*! That's good news. A few people > > I know have been scared off by the "boys' club" reputation that has > > for some reason grown up around this stuff, and so it's good that > > that's breaking down. There's room for everyone! > > You're missing the point. His relative aren't Using Linux, they are > using a *tool*. That's pretty insightful really. And interesting too. I actualy _Use Linux_ and have become more and more zealot like in the last year or so. But they (wife and kids) don't care about that crap and are happy to have a system that works, and works predictably. I, meanwhile, am learning that this thing I am _Using_ is actually a pretty good tool too... A
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