TheBigRedDog

She said that in the context of "There is nothing masculine/male about CS ..." and since gender was the subject of the dscussion you don't need a huge leap of faith to accept the comment as sexist.

As to the broom work, yes it's suitable t there, although not the subject of the post...

Look at it on the bright side: since you're forced to ask, at least you get to choose ... :)

Not quite. You're socializing (including taking on new hobbies) to meet new people, yes. But you're not passioned by your hobby (say History or computers) because you want to socialize ... And if you're into say long distance running that's not to have all the guys -who otherwise might have run faster- start slowing down just to look at your butt ...

Yes but there are major differences: - In college you're not interacting only through the Internet - Even though you might be popular, you're not going to have that many guys asking you out. - But the main thing is at work, or when practicing your hobby, you're not expecting to be bugged very often by people probing for a relationship...

Actually people call it FLOSS precisely to avoid choosing between free software and open source ... FLOSS means Free/Libre/Open Source Software

meant "not to condone officially" ;)

Very good point. But it's not completely ludicrous either. The "sponsored by" usually means that the developer is actually employed by the company (hence the sponsor) and that he contributed in this capacity (i.e. ebing paid working on BSD for instance).

However the code itself often amounts to patches and the company itself (Apple in this article) has chosen not to condemn officially FreeBSD by making a direct financial donation to the foundation.