Nut launches death threats at Debian women

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jul 3, 2008 11:48 PM EDT
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Women working on Debian have been getting death threats from a nut job who believes they're killing free software. A poll by new project leader Steve McIntyre into whether people are happy on Debian revealed one female coder had been getting the threats as thanks for her hard work. Further daggering soon revealed she was not alone. McIntyre told The Reg: "I have since discovered that several of our female developers and documenters were threatened. It was some kook in the US who made quite a name from himself harassing women for supposedly destroying the free software movement."

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The nut job is welcome to make death threats at me tracyanne 33 1,873 Jul 9, 2008 3:54 AM
Only negatives? jezuch 0 841 Jul 4, 2008 1:23 PM

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