Re: RedHat 6.1 and Japanese

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

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

    cs> But do they develop their own localization patches?  Their
    cs> core business is Japanese distributions, right?  Do they wait
    cs> until someone else has released the patch and then profit from
    cs> their labour, or do they actually do useful in-house
    cs> development?[1]

I don't know.  It's irrelevant to my point.

I know that some of their (now former) developers knew I18N very well
and contributed greatly to getting things right in some external
projects.  Whether that involved internal patches as well I don't
know, the cases I know about were more on the lines of reviewing
developments and commenting on I18N impacts.

But putting together a system from all externally developed parts so
that it installs and runs in a locale other than POSIX is a useful
contribution, although it cannot be easily ported even to other Linux
distros.

    cs> I was going to check ftp.turbolinux.co.jp for the latest
    cs> version of pine-jp to make my point, but I saw this:

Pine-JP is an abomination, and wouldn't help to make any point ;-)

More seriously, because of the UDub policies on Pine development, it's
not a good example.  That would be hard to contribute to no matter how
you look at it.

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