F9 installation screenshot

[Casey Dahlin]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le mercredi 30 avril 2008 à 20:03 -0400, Matthew Saltzman a écrit :
>
>   
>> IIRC (maybe someone who was there can correct me), back in the early
>> days of Red Hat Linux (like 3.0.3 or something), the first experiment in
>> i18n was to create the Redneck locale (was it Donnie Barnes who was the
>> Carolina native who was the target of that little joke?).  The staff
>> thought it was amusing enough that they left it in as a language option
>> in the installer, so you saw all the dialog boxes translated from
>> English to Redneck.
>>
>> I (transplanted Yankee) thought it was kind of amusing at the time, but
>> I suppose it doesn't really have a place in a polished, professional,
>> worldwide distro.
>>     
>
> The joke and even the cooked-up locale were fine. Calling attention to
> them in later release image trains was not. Like it or not but a core
> argument for Linux adoption outside the USA is to stop sending vast sums
> of money abroad to big American proprietary software houses. Insisting
> heavily on an American Fedora personality in our initial screens is thus
> self defeating (that is probably one reason Debian kicks our asses in
> all the government-sponsored non-US Linux desktop deployments BTW).
>
> Just read the grass-root reports on big Linux deployments that get
> regularly posted on Fedora planet (and other venues). Keeping money
> locally is always the first argument. When localisation, support for non
> latin scripts, and having a non-US-centric solution isn't.
> 
>   
>> My spell-checker is complaining about some of your 's''s 8^).
>>     
>
> That's probably because your spell-checker does not know my messages use
> the British English dialect.
>
>   

Wow. I didn't realize that participating in Fedora was such an 
anti-patriotic activity on my part. I thought the purpose of open source 
was to produce a quality product, not deprive the fat, stupid, greedy 
American pig-dogs of their proprietary software blood money.

--CJD