There are too many countries involved - the only thing that I can see happening is the rest of the world getting pissed off with the USA trying to make everyone abide by it's laws.
Assuming they ran the same hardware on both machines (OK, I know that to assume it's a fair & scientific test might be unrealistic), then it shouldn't matter - linux had the same 'problems' to cope with.
Maybe windows is just good at trying to blame the hardware for it's faults?
If only a few simple equations (known for centuries) and the distance between the bars were needed, then why is this such new? Have the technical abilities of robots to time their catches not been up to this before?
Considering the effects of your code: the media attention, the legal disputes,and the freedom that it might help to bring, would you do the same (or something similar) again?
I'm saying that if a commercial company with the help of usenet can't manage to remove all traces of German, when there are probably more Linux users available and willing to translate, then you are still going to be left with traces of English in the Indian version, no matter who does it - Government, Business or Usenet.
If SuSE can't manage to remove all the german from their distribution and it's manuals (and let's be honest - they can't), how much chance does anybody have of translating everything into Indian?
Mind you - it's still better than users being novices in both Linux and English.
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There are too many countries involved - the only thing that I can see happening is the rest of the world getting pissed off with the USA trying to make everyone abide by it's laws.
They've got a way to go to catch up with Linux then *:op
Perfect - both a hardware hack, and a cool operating system. Why would any user want to run the proprietary OS it comes with?
Assuming they ran the same hardware on both machines (OK, I know that to assume it's a fair & scientific test might be unrealistic), then it shouldn't matter - linux had the same 'problems' to cope with.
Maybe windows is just good at trying to blame the hardware for it's faults?
With only 63,000+ bugs known about BEFORE it's release to the public, I think don't think win2k stands much of a chance either.
Distributed.net seem to have problems with handing out their keyspace without the computers processing keys wrong. Maybe we should wait a while.
If only a few simple equations (known for centuries) and the distance between the bars were needed, then why is this such new? Have the technical abilities of robots to time their catches not been up to this before?
Considering the effects of your code: the media attention, the legal disputes,and the freedom that it might help to bring, would you do the same (or something similar) again?
I'm saying that if a commercial company with the help of usenet can't manage to remove all traces of German, when there are probably more Linux users available and willing to translate, then you are still going to be left with traces of English in the Indian version, no matter who does it - Government, Business or Usenet.
If SuSE can't manage to remove all the german from their distribution and it's manuals (and let's be honest - they can't), how much chance does anybody have of translating everything into Indian?
Mind you - it's still better than users being novices in both Linux and English.