- 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
freedom of expression. Most Americans don't understand this, but
Hey, I'm an Uzbekistanian who lives in US. Some third world countries including my own fell far back in computer and software technology. If they have had it at all. May be it's better for computer users and programmers out there to better study English instead of struggling with good/bad translations of Linux documentation in their native languages. I know five languages which I can count as my native except English. So, should I customize my Linux box to run KDE with all five of them and store replicated copies of the same documentation in the each my native language? What's a ridiculous idea! If your native country wasn't a pioneer in computer/software engineering, leave your national pride and study technology in the language it was developed. Alex ------------------- the right to 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
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