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Re: Hebrew & Linux from IBM?
- To: Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz(at-nospam)kde.org>
- Subject: Re: Hebrew & Linux from IBM?
- From: "Nadav Har'El" <nyh(at-nospam)math.technion.ac.il>
- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 15:09:26 +0200
- Cc: linux-il(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
- Hebrew-Date: 10 Kislev 5762
- In-Reply-To: <E167yY8-0006gR-00@witch.dyndns.org>; from hetz@kde.org on Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:37:36PM +0200
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On Sun, Nov 25, 2001, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote about "Hebrew & Linux from IBM?":
> As usual mr. Dudi Goldman made some mistakes
>
> 2. Contrary to the belief - you CAN charge money for a GPL application
> (provided that it comes with the source, and for a "reasonable amount"). Of
> course you can once you got the software to copy it to the whole world, but
> the main point is that you can charge for an application...
Yes. This is such a huge point that he got wrong, that I couldn't take
anything else he wrote after that seriously...
Another thing that struck me odd is the frame that mentioned that Linus
said in that meeting, when asked about software copying in Israel, that
he wouldn't expect differently from a country where innocent people are
being shot. This looks a bit too much like the Linus quote that someone
alleged here in September, to the point that it appears that Goldman's
article is based on urban legends, rather than actual interviews. Do you
mean to tell me that someone actually asked Linus, again, a specific question
about software copying in Israel, and Linus repeated that silly answer?
> Now - lets leave those 2 mistakes. one thing that I found a bit un-clear is
> that IBM is making Linux to work perfectly with hebrew. Now - I know that IBM
> helped with Mozilla and are translating Star Office - but calling those 2
> parts "making linux work with hebrew"? Don't get my wrong - The IBM work on
> those 2 projects is very welcome to the IL linux community, but is there
> something more that IBM didn't reveal and planning to reveal next month?
These two projects are so important and so welcome, that for all I care they
have earned the right to say that they are making linux work with Hebrew (it
doesn't that they're the only people to do something in that area, however!)
Of course, they should also fix the bugs they left in Mozilla's Hebrew
support :) (just look at bugzilla under the "bidi" component).
The article also mentioned that work on this is being done in IBM's Haifa
Research Center. Is that correct? I was under the impression that the work
was being supervised by IBM people from Tel-Aviv, and programming was done
together with an external company...
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