Elizabeth, I've been a professional software engineer for many decades. I've managed and been managed by people of both genders and most sexual orientations and many races and many religions. In my experience the field of software engineering is not perfect but it is less discriminatory than most.
Debian has inspiring goals, and most DDs are diligent workers who together are producing something valuable for humanity. But Debian also has a kernel of loud mouth mediocrities who gravitate to positions of power. They are adolescents and to them outrage is a virtue. The best that can be said of them is that they are not actually sexist because they will try to bully anyone. There can be no excuse for their recent attacks on women, on the Debian Constitution, or on Manoj. Thank you for what you have done for humanity through your work with Debian and Ubuntu. There are always software projects and software businesses that measure people by their personal qualities and their skills and I hope that you have the good fortune henceforth to work with honorable people in an environment of mutual respect - whether within Debian or elsewhere. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
