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Fedora Welcomes Women to FOSS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ladies-first dept.

nman64 writes "The Fedora Project, the project behind the Fedora Core Linux distribution, has introduced Fedora Women, a program to reach out to women who are interested in using and contributing to Fedora Core. This follows in the footsteps of LinuxChix, Debian Women, and Ubuntu Women and is part of a larger trend to support women in the FOSS world. At present, women are believed to make up only about 1.5% of the FOSS community. Is that finally set to change?"

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  1. Re:Artificial by trifish · · Score: 1, Troll

    Claiming women's "natural inclination" or interest is to not participate in free software projects is about as sexist a viewpoint as you can possibly achieve.

    You do realize that there are differences between men and women? Biological and psychic. Women can give birth, men can't. Women also have different interests than men. Without any doubt, their interests and talents are given by thousands of years of evolution. Trying to "defeat" nature is ridiculous and actually a feminist approach.