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Re:We need more of Richard Stallman, not less by brookst on Monday June 19, 2023 @08:22AM (#36390238)
With apologies for language, thus is GPT-2 level bullshit.

Through the 1960's, the majority of computer science jobs were held by women[1].

Your worldview is not compatible with reality.

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Re:We need more of Richard Stallman, not less by yawpitch on Monday June 19, 2023 @08:39AM (#36390390)
> Your worldview is not compatible with reality.

This.

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Re:We need more of Richard Stallman, not less by pydry on Monday June 19, 2023 @09:10AM (#36390653)
So what? The corporate "more diversity in tech" movement started circa 2013, not in 1966.

You can even trace when it happened by clustering the awards given to Margaret Hamilton:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_...

Three in the 47 years between 1969 and 2016, Eight in the 7 years between 2016 and now.

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