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Towards the end of the Q and A session, he/she/it was back with this query: "FOLLOW-UP QUESTION - did you just say that primarily white dudes are able to address the solving of Bug #1? Women & minorities just make it more interesting? Please clarify."
Shuttleworth was quick to fire back. "MarkDude, if you think I can't see a baited trap from this close, you're mistaken," he responded.
"I said that having diversity in the project is a wonderful goal. but it's no more a requirement to fix bug #1 than it is a requirement to do most other things. Fundamentalism is something I despise, and that goes for overdone activism too."
It looks like Robert expected the logs of this event to contain more answers that could be used to crucify Shuttleworth - who now appears to be her favourite bête noire - as the end of the post linked to the Ubuntu website where logs of the event were due to be put up.
"Full logs will be available shortly," it said, in breathless anticipation. However, reading the logs would have been a letdown as this was the extent of Shuttleworth's "crimes".
Schroder said, in part: "The goal of ‘bringing down Microsoft’ is a silly distraction anyway. If Mark Shuttleworth is happy with Ubuntu remaining a boy’s club that’s his privilege, though he’ll never admit it outright. He doesn’t need to, it’s already crystal-clear where he stands.
"It’s pretty funny when the inevitable ‘women don’t do Linux because they don’t want to’ comments start coming out, because the people saying them never bother to progress to the obvious question – if that is so, why don’t women want to do Linux? Here’s a hint: when you’re continually a target of creepy behavior and disrespect, why would you want to ‘do Linux’?"
She added: "Sigh indeed, he’s still dodging the question. So much for all the people who kindly gave him credit for making gaffes during his Linuxcon keynote but not out of malice or intent – he really is a sexist twit, and it’s pretty hard to not see intent. He’s not even trying."
When Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon tried to calm things down by posting a comment pointing out that Shuttleworth had always encouraged diversity in the community, Robert fired back: "I let your comment through our mod queue because I’m glad you’re joining us here on GF, but I want to remind you that as a feminist space we’re primarily interested in women’s experiences here."
Schroder then latched on to Bacon, berating him, "Your own blogs on the issue sound more like you want us to go away and quit raising all these uncomfortable issues, rather than having any genuine interest in understanding the scope of the problem, and how pervasive and hurtful it is."
Though the Q and A took place on November 6, the usual bunch who write in support of such things - Canonical chief technology officer Matt Zimmerman and Red Hat employee Matthew Garrett , to name two - have yet to do so.
Schroder attacked Shuttleworth over the LinuxCon incident as well, writing a post on the LinuxToday website headlined "Mark Shuttleworth's Community Has No Women."
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