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Then there are similar objection made in the October issue of Wired (which has always been in the hand of Apple people dreaming up a Microsoft empire for themselves...). OK. But I liked the piece anyway cause it point at the deeper problems of geek culture and its resistance to grow up. In order for Linux and FS to succeed, the question then becomes one of a radical change of culture, which, IMHO, can only be achieved by radically open up the communication channels and an active and outward looking non-dogmatic attitude (which doesnot automatically mean selling out to capitalist businesses etc.).But with this i don´t confirm. Sure it is possible to get rid of all what is of interest (for us here) on free software to make it more like nonfree software. But that is no solution for the problem.
while the discrimination of women in FS might be non-intentional, it is not by chance, however. There is a certain conservative tendency in most of the free software movement that also extends to the obtainment of power (e.g. the slogan of "world domination" for the Linux community, only half-jokingly). While FS as a theoretical construct might be neutral in respect to this, the real, mainstream FS "movement" (people that actually code software). More than often I found FS people talking about market shares as a value of its own with no other higher aim. It is also very interesting to observe an attitude that goes hand in hand with this and is also a confirmation of patriarchal structures: the sometimes crypto-fascist tendency in system-administration (very often gainful occupation of FS developers) and in general a mysogynic and homophobic tendency. I don't consider this a necessary consequence of FS but the question might be raised why there is quite of lot of this reactionary thinking in FS opposed to the widespread myth of the FS utopia. oliver ________________________________ Web-Site: http://www.oekonux.de/ Organisation: projekt oekonux.de
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