Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 21, 2004 02:50 AM
I understand the sentiment, but some of this is due to the greater internationalization of Linux. We Americans have to leave our Xenophobia behind and embrace the fact that it is a global world. Thus, isn't Ubuntu a Swahili word or something? Understandable since it was created in Africa, right?
Unlike many of our European brethren, I'm not criticizing the US. We don't have the advantage that the Europeans have in having dozens of countries easily travel-able to within the same distances which, when we travel in our own country, we're still in the same old homogenous United States.
Frankly, I think Europe in particular is very well poised for success in the next century - the internationalization of the CONTINENT is now being very nicely complemented by the internationalization of TECHNOLOGY (like the Internet).
In the US, we need to work to travel overseas more, to try to understand broader outlooks, and to just get over it when we encounter an unfamiliar distro name.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 21, 2004 02:50 AMUnlike many of our European brethren, I'm not criticizing the US. We don't have the advantage that the Europeans have in having dozens of countries easily travel-able to within the same distances which, when we travel in our own country, we're still in the same old homogenous United States.
Frankly, I think Europe in particular is very well poised for success in the next century - the internationalization of the CONTINENT is now being very nicely complemented by the internationalization of TECHNOLOGY (like the Internet).
In the US, we need to work to travel overseas more, to try to understand broader outlooks, and to just get over it when we encounter an unfamiliar distro name.
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