Re: [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-07-19T20:03:25Z

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> * Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> As Linus already pointed out, not everybody has to work with everybody.
>>
>> That's not the point though, the point is to potentially roughly double
>> the creative brain capacity of the Linux kernel project.
>
> Unfortunately that's impossible; we all know there aren't as many
> women programmers as there are men. So there's absolutely *nothing*
> the Linux kernel can do to double the creative brain capacity of the
> Linux kernel project (at least with respect to women).

There may be less women programmers than men programmers, but that
doesn't say anything about the ratio of female Linux kernel hackers vs.
female programmers.

So let's hope we can prove you wrong soon ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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