Re: Better Deals from Microsoft [was Re: Debian-installer i18n bidi and Hebrew news.]

2004-02-04 Thread Oron Peled
Shlomi... the facts, just the facts please... On Wednesday 04 February 2004 13:54, Shlomi Fish mumbled as follows: > Microsoft got its monopoly from many reasons. They can be summed up as > that they were the smartest of software companies up to now, and all the > rest did huge strategical mistake

Re: Better Deals from Microsoft [was Re: Debian-installer i18n bidi and Hebrew news.]

2004-02-04 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Dan Armak wrote: > On Wednesday 04 February 2004 13:25, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > I don't oppose recommending the use of open source software, but dislike > > laws requiring them very much. What I do support are laws requiring the > > government to use only software with open, doc

Re: Better Deals from Microsoft [was Re: Debian-installer i18n bidi and Hebrew news.]

2004-02-04 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2004, Shlomi Fish wrote about "Better Deals from Microsoft [was Re: > Debian-installer i18n bidi and Hebrew news.]": > > Why should it? If Microsoft lowers its price, it would be good for the > > custome

Re: Better Deals from Microsoft [was Re: Debian-installer i18n bidi and Hebrew news.]

2004-02-04 Thread Dan Armak
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 13:25, Shlomi Fish wrote: > I don't oppose recommending the use of open source software, but dislike > laws requiring them very much. What I do support are laws requiring the > government to use only software with open, documented formats and > protocols. Other than th

Re: Better Deals from Microsoft [was Re: Debian-installer i18n bidi and Hebrew news.]

2004-02-04 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Dan Armak wrote: > On Tuesday 03 February 2004 22:17, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Well, I'm hazy on Government support of free software. For once, I am a > > supporter of Laissez-Faire Capitalism (let's not start another flamewar on > > this), and think a government has no place to

Re: Better Deals from Microsoft [was Re: Debian-installer i18n bidi and Hebrew news.]

2004-02-03 Thread Dan Armak
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 22:17, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Well, I'm hazy on Government support of free software. For once, I am a > supporter of Laissez-Faire Capitalism (let's not start another flamewar on > this), and think a government has no place to intervene with the market. > (and open source

Re: Better Deals from Microsoft [was Re: Debian-installer i18n bidi and Hebrew news.]

2004-02-03 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Shlomi Loubaton wrote: > > Shlomi Fish wrote: > > On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Shlomi Loubaton wrote: > > > > For sure, part of the remarks are true, but DebianInstaller is > > > > becoming really more friendlierso newbies are a target > > > > > > > > Remember also that several

Re: Better Deals from Microsoft [was Re: Debian-installer i18n bidi and Hebrew news.]

2004-02-03 Thread Shlomi Loubaton
Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Shlomi Loubaton wrote: > > > For sure, part of the remarks are true, but DebianInstaller is > > > becoming really more friendlierso newbies are a target > > > > > > Remember also that several institutions have chosen Debian as a basis > > > for cust

Re: Better Deals from Microsoft [was Re: Debian-installer i18n bidi and Hebrew news.]

2004-02-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004, Shlomi Fish wrote about "Better Deals from Microsoft [was Re: Debian-installer i18n bidi and Hebrew news.]": > Why should it? If Microsoft lowers its price, it would be good for the > customers, who can get the software at a sane price. And it would be g

Better Deals from Microsoft [was Re: Debian-installer i18n bidi and Hebrew news.]

2004-02-03 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Shlomi Loubaton wrote: > > For sure, part of the remarks are true, but DebianInstaller is > > becoming really more friendlierso newbies are a target > > > > Remember also that several institutions have chosen Debian as a basis > > for custom distribution, for instance i

Re: Debian-installer i18n bidi and Hebrew news.

2004-02-01 Thread Shlomi Loubaton
Christian Perrier wrote: > (CC to list, in case posting is openedor moderated.and CC to > people mentioned in mails you forwarded me) > > Quoting Lior Kaplan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi Christian, > > > > You're welcome to see the talk in linux-il about your message to > > debian-i18n list.

Re: Debian-installer i18n bidi and Hebrew news.

2004-01-31 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 12:53:25AM +, Shlomi Loubaton wrote: > > I actually thought about a translated Debian installer for a while , but then > i realized that most newbish users would rather use a friendlier > distribution, and experienced users would usually prefer using English for > in

Re: Debian-installer i18n bidi and Hebrew news.

2004-01-30 Thread Lior Kaplan
MAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 2:53 AM Subject: Re: Debian-installer i18n bidi and Hebrew news. > Shaul Karl wrote: > > Quoting Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> recent report about the > > state of the Debian-installer i18n Hebrew and Arabic

Re: Debian-installer i18n bidi and Hebrew news.

2004-01-30 Thread Shlomi Loubaton
Shaul Karl wrote: > Quoting Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> recent report about the > state of the Debian-installer i18n Hebrew and Arabic issues: > > Arabic is near 100% but needs some work in dialog interface libraries > to get BIDI and shaping implemented. News from this needed.

Debian-installer i18n bidi and Hebrew news.

2004-01-30 Thread Shaul Karl
Quoting Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> recent report about the state of the Debian-installer i18n Hebrew and Arabic issues: Arabic is near 100% but needs some work in dialog interface libraries to get BIDI and shaping implemented. News from this needed. I tried to get in touc