Siempre las generalizaciones son malas, pero me ha extrañado ver la siguiente lista que recogó de los agradecimientos a los contribuidores en el proyecto
octave.
Ben Abbott, Andy Adler, Joel Andersson, Muthiah Annamalai, Shai Ayal, Roger Banks, Ben Barrowes, Alexander Barth, David Bateman, Heinz Bauschke, Karl Berry, David Billinghurst, Don Bindner, Jakub Bogusz, Moritz Borgmann, Marcus Brinkmann, Remy Bruno, Marco Caliari, Daniel Calvelo, John C. Campbell, Jean-Francois Cardoso, Joao Cardoso, Larrie Carr, David Castelow, Vincent Cautaerts, Clinton Chee, Albert Chin-A-Young, J. D. Cole, Martin Costabel, Michael Creel, Jeff Cunningham, Martin Dalecki, Jorge Barros de Abreu, Philippe Defert, Bill Denney, David M. Doolin, Pascal A. Dupuis, John W. Eaton, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Paul Eggert, Stephen Eglen, Peter Ekberg, Rolf Fabian, Stephen Fegan, Ramon Garcia Fernandez, Torsten Finke, Jose Daniel Munoz Frias, Castor Fu, Eduardo Gallestey, Walter Gautschi, Klaus Gebhardt, Driss Ghaddab, Nicolo Giorgetti, Michael Goffioul, Glenn Golden, Tomislav Goles, Keith Goodman, Etienne Grossmann, Peter Gustafson, Kai Habel, William P. Y. Hadisoeseno, Benjamin Hall, Kim Hansen, Soren Hauberg, Daniel Heiserer, Yozo Hida, Roman Hodek, A. Scottedward Hodel, Richard Allan Holcombe, Tom Holroyd, David Hoover, Kurt Hornik, Christopher Hulbert, Cyril Humbert, Teemu Ikonen, Alan W. Irwin, Geoff Jacobsen, Mats Jansson, Cai Jianming, Steven G. Johnson, Heikki Junes, Atsushi Kajita, Mohamed Kamoun, Lute Kamstra, Thomas Kasper, Joel Keay, Mumit Khan, Paul Kienzle, Aaron A. King, Arno J. Klaassen, Geoffrey Knauth, Heine Kolltveit, Ken Kouno, Oyvind Kristiansen, Piotr Krzyzanowski, Volker Kuhlmann, Tetsuro Kurita, Miroslaw Kwasniak, Rafael Laboissiere, Kai Labusch, Claude Lacoursiere, Walter Landry, Bill Lash, Dirk Laurie, Maurice LeBrun, Friedrich Leisch, Benjamin Lindner, Ross Lippert, David Livings, Erik de Castro Lopo, Massimo Lorenzin, Hoxide Ma, James Macnicol, Jens-Uwe Mager, Ricardo Marranita, Orestes Mas, Makoto Matsumoto, Tatsuro Matsuoka, Laurent Mazet, G. D. McBain, Christoph Mayer, Stefan Monnier, Antoine Moreau, Kai P. Mueller, Victor Munoz,
Carmen Navarrete, Todd Neal, Al Niessner, Rick Niles, Takuji Nishimura, Eric Norum, Michael O'Brien, Thorsten Ohl, Arno Onken, Luis F. Ortiz, Scott Pakin, Gabriele Pannocchia, Sylvain Pelissier, Per Persson, Jim Peterson, Danilo Piazzalunga, Nicholas Piper, Hans Ekkehard Plesser, Tom Poage, Orion Poplawski, Ondrej Popp, Jef Poskanzer, Francesco Potorti, James B. Rawlings, Eric S. Raymond, Balint Reczey, Michael Reifenberger, Jason Riedy, Petter Risholm, Matthew W. Roberts, Andrew Ross, Mark van Rossum, Kevin Ruland, Olli Saarela, Toni Saarela, Juhani Saastamoinen, Ben Sapp, Alois Schloegl, Michel D. Schmid, Nicol N. Schraudolph, Sebastian Schubert, Ludwig Schwardt, Daniel J. Sebald, Dmitri A. Sergatskov, Baylis Shanks, Joseph P. Skudlarek, John Smith, Julius Smith, Shan G. Smith, Joerg Specht, Quentin H. Spencer, Christoph Spiel, Richard Stallman, Russell Standish, Doug Stewart, Thomas Stuart, John Swensen, Ariel Tankus, Georg Thimm, Duncan Temple Lang, Olaf Till, Thomas Treichl, Utkarsh Upadhyay, Stefan van der Walt, Peter Van Wieren, James R. Van Zandt, Gregory Vanuxem,
Ivana Varekova, Thomas Walter, Olaf Weber, Thomas Weber, Bob Weigel, Andreas Weingessel, Michael Weitzel, Fook Fah Yap, Michael Zeising, Federico Zenith, Alex Zvoleff.
Aunque hay nombres bastante ambiguos y puede que se me haya escapado alguno que otro. SÓLO DOS NOMBRES DE CHICAS ES ALARMANTE. Así, que lanzo la pregunta: ¿Qué les pasa a las chicas en el software libre?