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Paul C. Brown, Editor in Chief

From issue 17 / 2013

The Melting Pot

Dear Ubuntu User Reader,

Is it weird for a Spanish editor to edit an Anglo-American magazine written mainly by German writers? We can take this exercise further: Do you find it a bit strange that you are reading about an operating system created by a South African, based on a kernel developed by a Finnish hacker, and maintained and expanded by a worldwide crew of programmers and software companies?

Well, you shouldn't, because the fact is that variety is the lifeblood of FLOSS (if you're not familiar with the term, that is Free/Libre Open Source Software). What's more: Within the open source community, your nationality doesn't matter, your skin color is a non-issue, and your creed is irrelevant. It seems there are some issues regarding gender, but, in typical software-engineery fashion, those issues are being dealt with by workgroups that file bug reports and patches and write charters and best practice reports that are then applied to live conferences and online forums.

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