- I am uncertain why the reaction to this announcement devolved into an - argument about the EU and other silliness.
Depends on your point of view. Language and culture aren't really an issue for Americans. It is for Europeans. Many people feel that not having software localized to their own language is the equivalent of not having the right to freedom of expression. Most Americans don't understand this, but there it is none the less.
I am a Brasilian. I'm worked with Red Hat, Conectiva, but in the last 3 years I've been working with Suse ! The language and the culture here are completly apart ! The main reason is the REALY bad translations available from any software package you can imagine ! Here, traslation is traslation, don't mather the source, Cinema, television, literature or software all of them is made by the same peaple ! Traslaters ! You can see this "traslaters" doing a job to Warner's Babylon5, Garribaldi refering of your expirience in Io and Europe, considering Europe as yours old Continent, the traslater just don't know that exists a satelite in Jovian sistem called Europe, brother of Io !!! In the software is the same !! I ( and a lot of peaplein all Sounth America ) preffer NO traslation, then this kind of translation !!! But, if some day we can get good traslations and localizations ..... Fábio Rabelo