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Re:We need more of Richard Stallman, not less by dublinben on Monday June 19, 2023 @08:34AM (#36390343)
Clearly not, if you take a look at the demographics of the free software community and how it compares to tech more broadly.
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Re:We need more of Richard Stallman, not less by c4mpute on Monday June 19, 2023 @08:37AM (#36390377)
Ah, so a white female cannot represent free software to a yellow male or a red trans? How incredibly racist, sexist and bigoted.

The composition of a group does not limit what it can do or stand for. Anything else would imply that some humans are more valuable than others.

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Re:We need more of Richard Stallman, not less by shrimp_emoji on Monday June 19, 2023 @10:58AM (#36391810)
Those are the demographics of "the software community", not "the free software community". Why did you think all those white guys got into the "free" one to begin with?

> and how it compares to tech more broadly

Big citation needed

Attempting to socially engineer your way out of that is a potentially impossible road, lined with injustices.

Fwiw, though, the creator of Bash is black: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Fox_(computer_programmer...

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