An Open Letter to the Open Source Community

[Andy]

On 23/05/07, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> "<group> are less likely to be
> involved in <activity> because of a lack of experience and familiarity with
> <activity>".  Hogwash.

Actually it would be "less likely to be involved in <activity> because
of a lack of experience and familiarity with <associated activity>"

> An
> imbalance of 1.5% is a travesty, especially in a community which has been
> founded on principles of openness, equality and freedom.

I never said that it wasn't a problem I merely presented what was in
my view a possible cause (or at least a contributing factor).

> Today, young people who take an interest in
> computers should have the opportunity to explore software in much more depth
> than ever before, because of free software.  A large and healthy free
> software community can be the best technology education one could hope for.

Are we branching off onto "Free software should be used in schools"?

I do agree that free software should be used in education. But that's
a different topic and let's not stray now (or if you want to stray
fork the thread or something).


Andy

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