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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 01:42:14 JST 翠星石

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   • meso [netzsphaere era]
   @meso >checks sources
   >"github open source survey"
   That's the "writing proprietary software gratis" community.
   
   Maybe that shows that few women are dumb enough to write proprietary software without getting paid?
   
   >U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
   Checking the U.S. Bureau;
   <job> <total wagies> <percent women> (yes, there is no percentage for men)
   Computer and mathematical occupations 6,502 26.9
   Computer systems analysts 513 37.8
   Information security analysts 231 19.3
   Computer programmers 402 21.5
   Software developers 2,134 20.2
   Software quality assurance analysts and testers 76 44.1
   Web developers 76 19.4
   Web and digital interface designers 79 42.7
   Computer support specialists 687 26.2
   Database administrators and architects 122 30.8
   Network and computer systems administrators 202 16.7
   Computer network architects 104 7.7
   Computer occupations, all other 1,197 26.0
   
   I don't get where they got the 23% from, but this shows that the percentage of women employed in computing seems above 23%.
   
   These statistics also point out how few proprietary software developers are actually employed and how ridiculous the power they are endowed is.
   
   
   Free software communities tend to be free of doxing - nobody asks if you are male or female and nobody who is there for the freedom cares either.
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     meso [netzsphaere era] (meso@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 01:42:16 JST meso [netzsphaere era]
     >Richard Stallman has also embarked upon a decades-long political project to normalize sexual violence. Under his ideological leadership, the free software movement is unsafe, particularly for women. Women represent just 3% of the free software community,2 compared to 23% of industry programmers generally.3 This is no accident. There is a pervasive culture of sexism and a stark lack of accountability in free software, and it begins with Stallman’s unchallenged and reprehensible behavior.
     
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