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Named Innovators/Developers of Color?
i_c_andrade asks: "Apple and other tech companies were in the past called to task for the lack of Hispanics and African-American's on their Board of Directors, so after doing some research I came to the conclusion that I just did not know a lot of named IT/OSS/Web/CS innovators/developers that were not white (or American) specifically Hispanic or African-American. The first (and only) name that I could think of was Miguel de Icaza, and well I can only blame my own ignorance for not knowing any more, or are there? I know there is a big BSD movement in Brazil (they created the The FreeBSD LiveCD Project; but where else are there developers 'of color' and what are they working on?"
I have sort of a pinkish tan hue.
Slashdot - where whining about luck is the new way to make the world you want.
Everyone on here looks like black text on a white background to me.
The politically correct terminology is Serif-American text.
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"
For example: "To smurf a new file, open the smurf, then adjust the smurf as you desire, if the file is smurf-only then you must smurf to smurf smurf..."
But then again, I have been biased against the smurfs since the 80s.
Am I open minded towards open source, or closed minded towards closed source?
You don't understand.
Every career and profession and company has to have the proper percentage of each person that fits into categories such as various races, religions, ages, sexes and sexual preferences. Likewise, a certain percentage of inventions MUST be devised by an acceptable statistical alottment of each of these categories.
I don't know if inventions are better or more useful depending on the race, sex or sexual preference and religion of the person inventing them, but if 12.85% of all inventions are not created by gay chinese christians, then it's because some evil force is holding them back out of hatred and ignorance. Or something.
Just think of how much better Java would have been if it hadn't been invented by some freaky-haired honky? That alone proves this article submitters point. And.. uh.. stuff.
I give up. And no, I don't know most of my coworkers either. It's usually fairly easy to pick out the Indian and Asian-Pacific names on Jabber, but aside from that, I don't really know. And I don't really care, either. As long as they're good at their job and not jerks, who gives a fuck?