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1. fontana (fontana)'s status on Saturday, 23-Jun-2012 22:45:57 EDT fontana

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   • bkuhn
   @bkuhn I don't think that makes sense. Why are comparatively fewer women getting involved in !fs projects to begin with?
   • bkuhn (bkuhn)'s status on Sunday, 24-Jun-2012 10:43:36 EDT bkuhn

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     • fontana
     "Fewer women get started in FLOSS": IMO answer's "unknown". Proprietary corporate hiring depts *do* have an easier time fixing that issue.
   • fontana (fontana)'s status on Sunday, 24-Jun-2012 11:52:43 EDT fontana

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     • bkuhn
     @bkuhn I suspect most FLOSS developers also write proprietary-licensed code
   • fontana (fontana)'s status on Sunday, 24-Jun-2012 11:54:06 EDT fontana

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     • bkuhn
     @bkuhn more precisely, you seem to be imagining world where there are 2 disjoint sets: proprietary corporations and FLOSS projects.
   • bkuhn (bkuhn)'s status on Sunday, 24-Jun-2012 13:05:25 EDT bkuhn

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     • fontana
     Interesting; I'd thought that tradition had died out. It's how #GNU community began: proprietary developers hacking on nights/weekends.
   • cwebber (cwebber)'s status on Sunday, 24-Jun-2012 13:29:38 EDT cwebber

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     • bkuhn
     @bkuhn think of webdev world, majority of github committers, that's at least true if you count proprietary SaaS as proprietary sw generally.
   • fontana (fontana)'s status on Sunday, 24-Jun-2012 13:38:50 EDT fontana

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     • bkuhn
     @bkuhn some #GNU developers presumably had no proprietary experience, e.g. Roland #McGrath
   • bkuhn (bkuhn)'s status on Sunday, 24-Jun-2012 14:31:51 EDT bkuhn

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     • fontana
     I should've asked Roland #McGrath when I met him if he'd ever written proprietary software. I was too much in awe when I met him to ask much