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Re: He's dead, Jim!



On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Ira Abramov wrote:

[ long rant snipped ]

Apparently, none of the events you initiated seemed useful to anyone.

> Our goals were to raise awareness in the Israeli market to Linux and
> advocate development of Hebrew Apps, and it seems we are almost half the
> way there but riding on hot air alone, and now we lost that too. I can
> only assume that the subject is not important enough to anyone but a few

You are riding on hot air for a single reason - there is no way for
linux to succeed in israel without hebrew support. Specifically:
- A web browser that can show every hebrew page that IE can.
- A mail user agent that can read hebrew as sent by popular windows
  mailers (netscape, outlook).
- A hebrew word processor.
- Much of the documentation translated.

Until we have this, to whom are you trying to show linux? To companies
that need servers? That does not require volunteers giving away
CDs. That requires a consultant list.  

> and me, and 10 people does not a LUG make. If Linux' success in Israel
> is important to you, do something, 

You miss the point - Don't assume that it means people don't care about
Linux success, when people merely don't think that you hold the key to
Linux success.




-- 
Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan@svgalib.org



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