Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 19, 2006 04:50 AM
It's very cool to see a culture have the ability to localize software on it's own. Obviously, that concept allows any culture to create their own version but it is probably also more effective than a single source that creates language packs in an office.
It'd be interesting to tweak stuff for specific dialects by taking an existing free language pack of a similar language and modifying it.
But I'm curious, nobody's actually said why you can't do this with microsoft software. Do they really make it that hard for people to localize stuff themselves? I'd think it would be in their best interest to to allow people to do this, just like you can write your own software to run on windows.
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why is this a problem?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 19, 2006 04:50 AMIt'd be interesting to tweak stuff for specific dialects by taking an existing free language pack of a similar language and modifying it.
But I'm curious, nobody's actually said why you can't do this with microsoft software. Do they really make it that hard for people to localize stuff themselves? I'd think it would be in their best interest to to allow people to do this, just like you can write your own software to run on windows.
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