Jonathon Blake wrote: > The majority of participants on the OOo mailing lists have email > addresses that are physically located in the US.
Are you sure that's true? I was pretty confident that the NLC lists altogether exceeded the others. When you add the fact that over 80% of our developers are in Ireland and Germany, I would be very surprised if this wasn't enough to exceed the number of US addresses. I'm pretty sure that US addresses are a minority. > The appearance is that the most active participants of the various > lists are physically located in the US. Sophie, Charles, Jacqueline, Jean, GRS, Ian, CPH, Nicu, Alex, Nikklas, Joerg and many others are not in physically located in the US. I still think that USAian addresses are a minority. > Therefore, it appears to be an unincorporated organization within the > United States. As such, US Federal law would have jurisdiction. But if most of our members, and most of our developers are outside the US... the main problem, AFAICT, is that Sun is a US company. :-( > [Majority here does not mean 50% + 1. It means "more than from any > other country. So if there are 11 yankees, 10 kiwis, 9 canucks, 8 > ozzies, 7 limeys, and 5 frogs, the US still has the majority, even > though only 22% are yankees.] I don't think that's the legal definition of "majority". If a company has 10% of its asses in the US, and 5% in each of 18 other countries, you couldn't really say that it is a US company. > A much more complete legal explanation from Sun is required. > There is support for languages and locales that are used in countries > that are on the US embargoed list. Indeed. > OTOH, there is fairly complete support for at least one language that > is basically only used in one of the countries that is on that > embargoed list. Which is that? Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
