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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!noc.netcom.net!news.sprintlink.net!gate2.internet-eireann.ie!news.internet-eireann.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.internet-eireann.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD Date: 24 Jun 1995 19:31:38 GMT Organization: Internet Eireann Lines: 18 Message-ID: <JKH.95Jun24203138@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> References: <3qfhhv$7uc@titania.pps.pgh.pa.us> <3sd2ml$16e@pandora.sdsu.edu> <3sdmhf$tm1@felix.junction.net> <3sfdrc$12n@pandora.sdsu.edu> <3shfv7$t9@felix.junction.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.internet-eireann.ie In-reply-to: michael@okjunc.junction.net's message of 24 Jun 1995 16:53:59 GMT Whooeee.. I'm not sure how THIS little flame-fest started, but I just want to make it very clear that FreeBSD considers itself to be an very International effort. There are currently 17 people on the FreeBSD Core Team, fully 8 of which are NOT U.S. citizens! I myself divide my time between Ireland and the U.S. and though I'm an American, born and raised, I certainly understand the "non-U.S. viewpoint" after having spent the last 7 years living in various parts of Europe and Ireland. Finally, I and the translation team went to significant effort to provide parts of the FreeBSD 2.0.5 installation in over *eleven* different languages, and the 2.1 installation will be fully internationalized. To say or even intimate that we cater to "stereotypical arrogant American idiots" is not only a gross insult, it's simply WRONG. Jordan