[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 18:56:39 +0100 (GMT), Alice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> >As esr wrote in the cathedral and
> >the bazaar a lot of open source software development can be traced to
> >gaining peer approval (as well as the scratch an itch stuff).
>
> I don't buy esr's argument here. He's assuming that he's "typical"
> when in fact he's not.
>
> Of course, esr is also a sexist pig, so I don't know if we really want
> him as a "role model" anyway.
um, pardon me, but do you speak from personal experience?
(ie, have you met or do you know esr personally?)
speaking as someone who's hung out with him at conventions (no, not
/THAT/ kind of conventions... sci-fi conventions!) and who knows his
extremely kickass wife, he really doesn't seem /at all/ sexist to me,
nor have i ever read anything in his writing that's particularly sexist.
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