The international language for Air traffic control is english, this is not
nessasarily a good or a bad thing, it is a fact that it was realized years
ago that hurt feelings by some contries was less important then the
ability to communicate. For Linux, if we have someone (or some program)
that will translate ALL the comments into another language, good, go for
it. but the key advantage of Linux is the open source available for all to
read, this advantage will be meaningless if the comments start fragmenting
into whatever language the latest programmer decided to comment in.
David Lang
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998 ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote:
> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 17:53:05 +0200
> From: ralf@uni-koblenz.de
> Reply-To: /dev/null@lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de
> To: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <ragnar@lightside.ddns.org>,
Stefan Monnier
<monnier+lists/linux/kernel/news/@TEQUILA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: -j zImage (locales)
>
> On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 11:29:54AM +0100, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote:
>
> > Dunno. Maybe Linus should start putting code and documentation written in
> > .fi, others in .cz, .es, .de, etc. The point is, I cant help this guy it I
> > dont know german. Or japanese, or whatever. We have a more or less common
> > language. Why not stick to it?
>
> We don't and the respective "One language fits all" attitude is pissing of
> quite a number of people. Remember that people on this list tend do be
> higher school education than the average person on this planet. If Linux
> wants to succeed beyond a certain limit it will have to become multiligual
> despite all the technical problems this will result in. This will be one
> of the key points to ``world domination'' just as important as apps.
>
> Ralf
>
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