So he is not a lefty snowflake, and I quite agree with his statement """the most important part of open source is that people are allowed to do what they are good at" and "all that [diversity] stuff is just details and not really important.""" In far too many companies and particularly governments, there are far too many people doing jobs they are not qualified or experienced to do [and this applies to all genders]
Personal example 30 yrs ago I employed a new rep, it was a female, [very unusual in my industry] not the best looking, she was fairly knowable and eager to learn she was also openly gay [also unusual for the times] She got on well with all the customers from the specialist [expensive] architects I dealt with down to the roughest site navvy, and was extremely successful,
About the same time, some of my suppliers started employing female Reps, but oh so different, slender very pretty, skirts up to their armpits, they would have easily got a job for BA or Emirates airways as cabin crew, ask them a technical question or to sort out a complaint, and they did not have a clue where to start, why were these companies employing Bimbo's? First to meet the equal opportunity regulations employing a minimum percentage across the company, and second they thought that a pretty girl would be more successful than a qualified man in getting orders from older mail buyers and specifiers, The company sales directors were most put out when I told them it's no use sending that rep in again, and I will only deal with ones who know the technicalities of their product and usage.
Don't get me wrong, I don't care what gender anyone is as long as they are competent, which is basically what Linus is saying
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