Matthew Vernon wrote: > >Part of the problem, I think, is that there are just so many of these >"little things", and that together they make up an environment that is >hostile to folk who aren't male (and, often, white and heterosexual). If >it was just one "little thing" then perhaps it wouldn't be so bad, but >it's not, it's hundreds of "little things", and getting any one of them >improved can involve a vast argument about how this "little thing" isn't >worth getting worked up about (et seq, et seq).
Exactly this. We can improve the whole with each little thing that we improve. The fact that a task is large, with many parts to it, shouldn't put us off from starting it anyway. Hell, who'd have thought a collection of volunteers could develop and maintain a complete operating system...? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast." Matthew Garrett, http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/30675.html
