From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 15 21:50:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AB6B37B417; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 21:50:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fBG5oZR11495; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 06:50:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <002701c185f5$956e9aa0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Greg Lehey" , "Terry Lambert" Cc: "FreeBSD Chat" References: <20011216124818.L62493@monorchid.lemis.com> <3C1C30A8.633D60A3@mindspring.com> <20011216160806.R62493@monorchid.lemis.com> Subject: Re: Why no Indians and Arabs? Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 06:50:35 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg writes: > Certainly my intention was not to discriminate; > quite the contrary. I would find it sad if > obvious differences can't be discussed. They can be discussed, but to what end? Nationality, ethnic background, gender, race, and religion are all completely irrelevant to software engineering, except in the extremely narrow contexts Terry has described, and then only for nationality or geographic location. I've never seen any variable of software coding that correlates with any of these characteristics. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message