Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761002Ab3GSSmN (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:42:13 -0400 Received: from mail-la0-f45.google.com ([209.85.215.45]:53436 "EHLO mail-la0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752888Ab3GSSmL (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:42:11 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130719120841.GH26716@gmail.com> References: <1373944014.17876.255.camel@gandalf.local.home> <51E4BFA9.1030600@zytor.com> <1373991399.6458.6.camel@gandalf.local.home> <51E59F79.1040903@zytor.com> <20130717144043.GA16513@xanatos> <20130719120841.GH26716@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:42:06 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [ATTEND] How to act on LKML From: Felipe Contreras To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Sarah Sharp , Stefano Stabellini , "H. Peter Anvin" , Steven Rostedt , Chris Ball , Darren Hart , Linus Torvalds , Guenter Roeck , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , stable , ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Willy Tarreau Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1627 Lines: 38 On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Felipe Contreras wrote: >> As Linus already pointed out, not everybody has to work with everybody. > > That's not the point though, the point is to potentially roughly double > the creative brain capacity of the Linux kernel project. Unfortunately that's impossible; we all know there aren't as many women programmers as there are men. So there's absolutely *nothing* the Linux kernel can do to double the creative brain capacity of the Linux kernel project (at least with respect to women). At best that is a societal/academic/professional issue, not a Linux issue. > Even if you don't care about gender fairness, that kind of bona fide > benefit to the project is worth a try or two I think ... I think the Linux kernel is perfectly gender-fair, in fact, you don't even need to state you gender; you would be treated the same either way. But you are avoiding the question as well; do you think there's something fundamentally different about the female brain that makes them more susceptible to personal attacks? If yes, where is the scientific evidence? If there's no evidence, then it's merely an opinion that is not shared by others (e.g. me), and if no, then whatever the men can take, the women can take as well, so nothing needs to change. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/