danese cooper of sun microsystems mentioned that women tend to get turned off by linux-oriented mailing lists due to such, often unintended remarks, as of coure with flames.
incidentally, just yesterday i happened to discover that a help-authoring software was coded and developed by a woman, but she found the hostile environment of the opensource community too much to handle and closed the project on the sourceforge site.
please check this out for more details: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=352609
This is quite an interesting social issue. On one hand people want Internet to be suitable for women and children. On the other hand there are people who think that the Internet is just like any day in the city - there are good places and bad places in the city where both can wander off to. And there are other places where you just cant help going like the market (bazaar? ;) ) where you have to be prepared for a few rough people here and there.
:)
- Sandip
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