A. Mani, 26/09/19 03:43:
The sad thing is that RMS is one of the champions of womens rights in
the free software world.
This is false.
Uh? It's one thing to say that some actions were not enough, and another
to deny facts which are demonstrably true.
It's trivial to find RMS statements in support of women rights from 2000
because they're on <https://stallman.org/archives/archive-2000.html>.
It's also rather easy to show that RMS has strongly advocated for GNU to
support both software freedom and women rights since before 1993.
How many other prominent free software maintainers were doing the same
back then? Genuine question, I have no idea. From
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing#1990s> it seems some
of the earlier efforts were in 1994. Remember that «By the 1990s,
computing was dominated by men. The proportion of female computer
science graduates peaked in 1984 around 37 per cent, and then steadily
declined» (quoted from the same section).
https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=357629765
https://www.theguardian.com/careers/2017/aug/10/how-the-tech-industry-wrote-women-out-of-history
Federico
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