Daniel 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?
That was my perception. >I was pretty confident that the NLC lists altogether exceeded the others. How do we get a list of the number of subscribers to the various lists, with a breakdown of where their email addresses are located? [I know how to do that with MajorDomo, ListServe, MailMan, and a couple of other mailing list programs.] > I'm pretty sure that US addresses are a minority. If there are more US addresses than address for any _single_ country, then the US is a majority. Majority <> 50% +1. Majority = more than any other single country. One potential issue is whether one considers the EEC to be a single country or not. > But if most of our members, and most of our developers are outside the US... If there are more that are physically located in the US, than any other single country, then US law takes precedence. > I don't think that's the legal definition of "majority". If a company has 10% > of its assets in the US, and 5% in each of 18 other countries, you couldn't > really say that it is a US company. Do not confuse the legal definition of "controlling" with that of "majority". You can have a majority interest without a controlling interest in a company. [This is essentially how shell companies and holding companies operate.] > Which is that? If Issuezilla is to be believed, they added support for it for 2.0. [I thought that support for it was added in 1.1.4, but it isn't. I'm still "faking" the language, using a sister language in that locale.] http://www.sun.com/sales/its/countries/Embargoed.html is probably going to be the most comprehensive explanation we will see from Sun. OTOH, they got the name of at least two countries wrong. DRK <> PDRK. I'll just point out that OOo 1.1.4 currently offers at ">Format >Style Catalog >Catalog >Paragraph Styles >Font" Arabic (Libya) Arabic (Syria) Chinese (Traditional) What would Sun do if somebody were to drop in a patch for Spanish(Cuba)? Did anybody else know that there are OOo NLPs for countries/languages on the Embargo list whose patches have been accepted by Sun? Scott McNeally needs to send Kim a personal apology. And put the code in. If Sun wants to claim that the reasons they give in Kim's issue are valid, then they have to explain why they are willing to include support for the other languages/locales on that embargo list. xan jonathon -- A Fork requires: Seven systems with: 1+ GHz Processors 2+ GB RAM 0.25 TB Hard drive space --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
