Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Apologies

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

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