OT: Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

[Mike McCarty]

Brian Mury wrote:
> Now you're just being silly.
> 
> 
>>Please use
>>	(a) common sense
> 
> 
> Perhaps you should use some?	
> 
> 
>>>communicate in English. Other
>>>languages might be ignored merely because the users in these lists might
>>>only know English or use it as their common language.
> 
> 
> The point is that Joel shouldn't write his messages in Japanese because
> most of us won't understand it and will ignore it. This is not the case
> with a few Japanese characters in an attribution line, followed by an
> English message - English speakers can understand that just fine (I can
> even understand his attribution line - they're pretty standard, and I
> can read the persons name/email address and the date & time).

And I'm not going on and on, either. I don't like it, but
he's explained that he's having problems getting rid of it.
If he has made a reasonable effort, then that's all that's
really being asked.

Mike
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