Re: tlug: TL 1.9Beta-1

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Karl-Max Wagner wrote:

> > we're thinking about it :) -- most of our stuff is i18n-ified now, such as
> > the installer, config tools, etc, so doing a German port wouldn't be too
> > hard, I hope :)
> There's no need for that - at least not at the beginning. German
> users are not very picky about that - English is fine. Never
> forget that Europe has less area than the US, but on that area
> fourteen languages are in use. Germany is in the middle of all
> that. So the tendency to have a working knowledge in English is
> quite great - particularly in your target market. Just sell them
> the US version. Most users will be happy with that ( there are
> many users in fact who prefer English to German because they are
> much more used to the English terminology. I belong to them ).
> When you have built up sales enough you may think of a localized
> version, but that's not very urgent, I'd say.

well, at the moment Walnut Creek has the distribution rights for
Turbolinux outside of Japan, so it's kind of up to them.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
http://www.pht.com		http://armadillo.pht.co.jp
http://www.pht.co.jp	        http://www.turbolinux.com


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