Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 17, 2006 03:54 AM
I doubt highly the insinuation that there is some conspiracy to keep women out of programming for FOSS. The logic does not hold up. Contribution to FOSS is not likely to be put through the rigors of a normal job search.
As to that, what constitutes a "developer" in these numbers? For all we know they are lumping VBA or some other goup into this mix.
Any initiative that looks at race or gender, and then skill is destined to fail. What is the point of artificially inflating a demographic? Does it not occur that perhaps women developers are busy trying to make it in the propietary world?
This is simply a "Feel Good" initiative devoid of sense. I would trade 10,000 programmers brought about this way for any ONE expert regardless of race or gender...
With a budget like M$ has, do you really think any career minded woman would drop the perceived prestige of a M$ developer position for FOSS? Dollars to doughnuts a large portion of this is actually related to the IDE. It's much more productive to use a visual quite than to hammer out a bunch of C code to manage a simple window...
In any case this initiative is an insult to women, programmers, and anyone with a drop of critical thinking by suggesting that you should spend your time on PC Demographical manipulation over skill... nuff said.
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Re:Oh, please....
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 17, 2006 03:54 AMAs to that, what constitutes a "developer" in these numbers? For all we know they are lumping VBA or some other goup into this mix.
Any initiative that looks at race or gender, and then skill is destined to fail. What is the point of artificially inflating a demographic? Does it not occur that perhaps women developers are busy trying to make it in the propietary world?
This is simply a "Feel Good" initiative devoid of sense. I would trade 10,000 programmers brought about this way for any ONE expert regardless of race or gender...
With a budget like M$ has, do you really think any career minded woman would drop the perceived prestige of a M$ developer position for FOSS? Dollars to doughnuts a large portion of this is actually related to the IDE. It's much more productive to use a visual quite than to hammer out a bunch of C code to manage a simple window...
In any case this initiative is an insult to women, programmers, and anyone with a drop of critical thinking by suggesting that you should spend your time on PC Demographical manipulation over skill... nuff said.
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