Jean: I'm an American and I eat french fries and use Mandrake on 6 computers. If Americans want to boycott items/products from France, screw them! Just means more for me (not to say that French fries are really made in France).
This is my first post to cooker in many many moons. Not really important that I post now, only to say that all Americans aren't short in the brain pan. Thanks for letting me waste a few preciouse moments of your life, Steve On Thursday 13 March 2003 01:59 pm, Jean-Michel Dault wrote: > There has been a lot of discussion about Americans wanting to boycott > french products, and some mails of people that said they wouldn't buy > Mandrake Linux because of that. > > Some facts you might want to know: > - The Mandrake Linux boxes sold in the stores in the USA are *not* a > French product, but an american-made product, since the boxes, CDs and > manuals are manufactured by Pearson/Macmillan right in the US. > - MandrakeSoft has developers all around the globe. The security updates > are made by a Canadian, the I18N leader is in Belgium, the Documentation > team has people in Quebec and Argentina, our kernel guy is in Spain, our > LSB and DrakXterm guy is in Ohio... and I am Quebecois ;-) > > If the Americans want to truly boycott French products, I suggest they > go with the typical: Bordeaux wine and Camembert. After all, they are > products that the average Joe Sixpack doesn't buy anyway, as he prefers > Budweiser and Cheez Whiz ;-) > > During my last trip to NYC, I was shocked at the fact that you can buy > beer 24/24 (except sunday mornings) at any corner store, while you have > to go to a Liquor Store to get wine, and that any decent bottle costs > about the same price as a Windows XP server box, that is, an arm and a > leg... > > Jean-Michel
