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Open source: dangerous to computing education? (opensource.com)

Open source: dangerous to computing education? (opensource.com)

Posted Feb 17, 2010 18:25 UTC (Wed) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: Open source: dangerous to computing education? (opensource.com) by farnz
Parent article: Open source: dangerous to computing education? (opensource.com)

What you missed is that Frederick Douglas was a very famous Black man.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass


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Open source: dangerous to computing education? (opensource.com)

Posted Feb 17, 2010 18:31 UTC (Wed) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

Possibly in America. I've never heard of him before, and nor have any of my friends here, nor indeed has my (single) American contact. It goes to show that the assumptions people make can be very, very wrong.

Nonetheless, I got his gender right from his name. And I've not even tried to get into cultural differences that indicate where you're from in any great depth.


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