On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 09:27:32AM +0100 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Laurel Fan wrote:
>
> > > Ok, but why are all the women not contributing?
> >
> > Many are. It's just that like thousands of men and women, they aren't
> > high profile, so you don't know of them.
>
> In Italy there aren't any, even low profile, so I'd like to show that
> maybe in other countries there are some, and share their experiences.
>
> Eugenia
Well, as Laurel said, it's entirely possible they're there but
less well-known. As an example, I was looking at the manual page
for useradd today, and at the bottom it says
AUTHOR
Julianne Frances Haugh ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Now how one would search man pages for all the authors, I don't
know :) But the programs which Linux distributions come with
are generally free software, just as much as the kernel is.
I was thinking about this the other day. When I say that I like
Linux, I think really, the only thing I like about Linux, the
kernel, is that I never really know it's there :) It doesn't
crash, so I forget about it until I decide, for unaccountable
reasons, that I want to add IRDA support or the kerneli.org
patches (done one, one day I'll do the other :)) to the machine.
That's the only time I really do anything with it. Oh, and
occasionally someone tells me something funny about the kernel
comments (Linus' birthday being incorporated into some important
number somewhere, or "there's a poem in the documentation for
arpnet". Yes, I'm easily amused.)
The rest of the time I live in Mutt, Gnome and Lynx, with frequent
forays into joe, grep, find, bash, more, cat, tinyfugue, etc. It's
my impression that all of those will run on *BSD (although BSD
has its own versions of some things I use, I think?) and many of
them run on the commercial unixes too. So how much I 'use' Linux,
and how much I use the programs which run on it, I don't know :)
Anyway, just thought I'd point out one woman who clearly has
written at least one thing -- a rather widely-used thing, too.
Telsa
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