These losers who refused to participate then after all the hard work and risk is over come back and say "I would have done that except" are trying to rewrite history. All you need to contribute is the know-how and a computer. Nobody needs to know you're a man or a woman or a trans or a gay or a straight. You're a few characters on a screen and the code you create. You don't even need to contribute to projects you don't like if you don't want to, you can create something completely different if you want.
I can't be the only one who grew up this way. I'm not some giant open source developer. I've never contributed to the Linux kernel or KDE. Regardless, growing up the computer more than anything else didn't care who I was, who my parents were, who my friends were, how much money we had or didn't have. If you understood and followed the rules of how the computer works, you could do really cool things.
The only ones who don't get that are people who are used to special treatment and who are upset that the computer doesn't care about the reasons why they deserver special treatment.
I can't be the only one who grew up this way. I'm not some giant open source developer. I've never contributed to the Linux kernel or KDE. Regardless, growing up the computer more than anything else didn't care who I was, who my parents were, who my friends were, how much money we had or didn't have. If you understood and followed the rules of how the computer works, you could do really cool things.
The only ones who don't get that are people who are used to special treatment and who are upset that the computer doesn't care about the reasons why they deserver special treatment.
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@malin I'm not hating on the article, but rather the horrid people who want to knock a guy like Stallman down because he isn't "nice enough".
I lost it at the one person's quote that they definitely would have for sure contributed to open source, but they just weren't nice enough.
Sure, there are ways you can have advantages, but especially for the past 25 or so years, the information is out there. Nobody programmed in the little industrial town I grew up in, but I managed to make some games and utilities and I was even able to contribute to the community I was part of online. Nobody needed to know I lived in a little industrial town where nobody programmed as long as the code worked.
I lost it at the one person's quote that they definitely would have for sure contributed to open source, but they just weren't nice enough.
Sure, there are ways you can have advantages, but especially for the past 25 or so years, the information is out there. Nobody programmed in the little industrial town I grew up in, but I managed to make some games and utilities and I was even able to contribute to the community I was part of online. Nobody needed to know I lived in a little industrial town where nobody programmed as long as the code worked.