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Interview With Eric Allman And Kirk McKusick

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the out-and-about dept.

Sygnus writes "An online gay youth resources community recently managed to secure an interview with Eric Allman and Kirk McKusick. The questions range from personal ("What was your motivation to raise children?") to technical ("What are your opinions of Darwin and MacOS X, which are based on your work?")."

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  1. filtered! by ard · · Score: 4
    does anyone else but me that have problems with accessing the site? Our filtering software does not like the domain name :)

    Thank you C*ber P*trol!

  2. Re:Posting AC to preserve my precious karma.... by Slothrup · · Score: 4

    I've known who these two people are for over ten years because of their high visibility in the free software world. This is the first time I've ever heard that they were gay, much less in a long-term relationship with each other. So, I'm not sure why you say "blatantly advertise". This was an interview that happened to be very focused on their relationship because of who was asking the questions. It certainly wasn't out-of-context.

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  3. Re:why so many computer innovators gay? by lupercalia · · Score: 5
    I suspect that there is no correlation between homosexuality and high tech. Rather, it is much easier for gays who work in tech to come out than it is for some others.

    1. Some admitted generalities that may have something to do with it:

    2. We work with intelligent, well educated people who think outside the box.

    3. We are very much in demand, and firing (or not hiring) because of someone's sexual orientation hurts the employer more than the employee.

    4.We tend to live in metropolitan high-tech areas that are more progressive than rural areas.

    I am gay, and as a contractor I have lots of interview experience. I often out myself during an interview, because if they have a problem with it I'd rather find out then and not later. I haven't missed a job opportunity yet because of it. Now, back in the 80's, I was fired from two jobs. Times, they are a changing'.

  4. Wow... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4
    Whoa... Eric Allman is gay? Wow, kinda nice to know that I'm not the only geek who dates the same gender, ya know?

    Many thanks for posting this, Slashdot!

  5. why so many computer innovators gay? by peter303 · · Score: 4

    Alan Turing, one of the founders of computer science; The Stanford guy who wrote the prototype for XWindows and Motif; The founder of one of two top desktop publishing companies and so on ...
    A recent demographic study found a very high
    correlation of gay meccas with high tech centers.
    Is this not really true? Or something "in the air" in central California that puts a San Francisco and Silicon Valley next to each other?
    Some about the gay male mind that makes sense of digitals patterns more easily?