Re: Linux/Mozilla related Short-Term Contract

[SL Baur <steve@example.com>]

Christopher Sekiya <wileyc@example.com> writes in tlug@example.com:

> On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 05:54:19PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>> It's very amusing that the Japanization of XEmacs (that was Sun's
>> goal) was done by a couple of gaijin

> No nihonjin at all?  Didn't know that.  It figures ;)

That's not quite true.  The code was originally written by the good
folk at ETL, basically HANDA Ken'ichi.  The initial Japanization of
XEmacs was done by Gaijin -- Ben Wing and Martin Buchholz, however it
was a nihonjin, MORIOKA Tomohiko who was responsible for getting it
into a semi-usable state[1].  Only semi-usable though.  It took another
six months of intense debugging and a heroic effort by Jareth Hein and
others to get something approaching stable.

Footnotes: 
[1]  Perhaps describing XEmacs 20.0 as "semi-usable" for Japanese is
an Algore-ism.