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Diversity Makes Projects More Successful

posted by on Thursday March 30 2017, @11:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the McKinsey-says dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Open source projects are by their nature intended to be welcoming, pulling in contributions from many different volunteers. But in reality, open source and the tech industry in general often lack diversity. Speaking at the Open Source Leadership Summit in February, Mozilla's Chief Innovation Officer Katharina Borchert told the crowd that working to bring ethnic, gender, and skill diversity to open source projects isn't just the right thing to do because of moral grounds, it's the right thing to do to make projects more successful.

Me, I beg to differ. Pretty sure success has to do with the diversity of thought/ideas rather than genetic diversity.

Source: https://www.linux.com/news/learn/chapter/open-source-management/2017/3/diverse-projects-more-successful

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  • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Friday March 31 2017, @04:06AM (5 children)

    by jmorris (4844) on Friday March 31 2017, @04:06AM (#486921)

    You must not get TV or a newspaper where you live. Or you aren't in the U.S. Because oh yea, saying "All Lives Matter" is hella racist according to bigots like the Democratic Party. And they can't figure out that idiocy of that level is why we got Trump.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @04:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @04:16AM (#486924)

    Well if you're not really a conservative racist misogynist CEO cock sucking brown noser then you must be a massive troll. So, either stop trolling or cop to the fact that you shouldn't be using MLK quotes. One or the other pal o mine.

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @04:33AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @04:33AM (#486931)

    > "All Lives Matter" is hella racist according to bigots like the Democratic Party.

    No, its not.
    What is hella racist is saying "All lives matter" in an attempt to dilute "black lives matter."

    "Black Lives Matter" is that rare double-ended dog-whistle.
    If you are a racist, you hear "Only Black Lives Matter"
    If you are not a racist, you hear "Black Lives Matter Too."

    Which one do you hear j-boy? Which one do you hear?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @01:33PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @01:33PM (#487062)

      Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization inspired by a Marxist terrorist Assata Shakur, (a.k.a Joanne Deborah Chesimard). Go ahead and deny facts.

      In fact, I would love for our current President to take a page out of a book of the last President and use a drone to kill this terrorist.

  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @06:42AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @06:42AM (#486966)

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