So how exactly were women oppressed for instance in open-source software?

Anyone with a computer and an internet connection could have become an expert programmer, given enough intelligence, enough persistence and enough time.

Yeah, Chad knows what you will say next. Society didn't/doesn't encourage girls/women to go into tech!

Guess what, it didn't encourage boys either. Boys interested in computers just 20 years ago were made fun of, ostracized, labeled losers and nerds, and ignored in a forgotten corner.

Now that the going is good, different story, eh ?

Dishonest posts like this are a disgrace to the intelligent women in technology who have actually earned their place by being smart and competent.