Re: RedHat 6.1 and Japanese

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "cs" == Christopher Sekiya <wileyc@example.com> writes:

    cs> On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 06:46:32PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull
    cs> wrote:
    >> But they are _not_ responsible for Japanizing everything that
    >> hasn't been Japanized yet.

    cs> It is in their own best interest to maintain a level of
    cs> quality in their localized distribution that is equal to
    cs> other, non-localized distributions.

That's what I said.  :-)  They're pretty close :-) :-) ... :-(

    cs> I used to hope that the market would ensure survival of the
    cs> fittest, and that Vine's maintainers would be able to produce
    cs> a superior localized distro that would blow TL out of the
    cs> water.  Such has not happened.

That's not what the market is for, unfortunately.  It's for giving
people what they are willing to pay for.

>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Cozens <simon@example.com> writes:

    Simon> &joke(type => "private", target => "chris", disposition => "really evil");

(defun meta-joke ()
  "Your orthography is positively terrible."
  
  (joke :type (unintern 'joke)
        :target 'wiley-c
        :disposition (get 'alignment 'prince-of-darkness)))

    Simon> On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 07:54:21PM +0900, Austin Kurahone wrote:

    >> I would bitch about how people should just get off their lazy
    >> butts and code if they want a good Japanized distro, but I know
    >> how much of a pain normal distro work can be, and it is
    >> something that I would only wish uppon some of my worst
    >> enemies.

    Simon> I'm not sure what Chris' problem is.  The entire *point* of
    Simon> distros is that they collect other people's work.

Well, yes and no.  I think Chris's model (God save us both) is the
scientific journal.  The distro should function as quality control, as
well as assembling stuff of interest in one place and making sure it
all works and plays well together.

I sympathize with that point of view.  Where I disagree with Chris is
that he apparently believes it is better to not do it at all if you
won't pay the price for 6-sigma quality.  I believe that most users
don't need (like hell I'm going to give them what they want, though,
they want Windows) 6-sigma quality.

    Simon> *sigh*. Where *did* I put that FreeBSD CD?

I don't like the way FreeBSD screws up XEmacs.  :-)


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