Hi Petr,
Thanks for replying to my somewhat personally offensive comment. I know I have
been a jerk on this matter and was definitely out of bound in my rather
allergic reaction, but there is a reason and I think I owe those that I have
offended an explanation.
I was quite actively involved in the development of Corel Linux (about 10 years
ago). This was the first easily installable Linux distro that ever came out,
and everyone was very excited. When I received my Corel Linux box, I was very
excited, too, but I quickly realized that it did not have the Realtek driver.
This was a big problem b/c at that time, this was the most popular NIC driver
used by DIY computer enthusiasts (b/c of the price and the frequent sales
promotions, etc.) I checked with our local Linux community and everyone else
had the same problem.
So I fired a couple of urgent emails to Corel's then CEO Dr. Michael Cowpland
("MC") and his chief Linux developer Ming Pun. They didn't think it was
necessary to take actions--the reviews were so flattering and demands so high,
so why spoil the party? But after a few months, most of the sold boxes were
returned--a computer is of no use if you can't go to the internet. And we lost
our best chance to challenge the Microsoft monopoly. Corel soon went into
financial trouble and one of MC's top hands (who later became Corel's CEO)
secretly negotiated an agreement for BG to acquire 25% of Corel's shares in
convertible stocks, and the rest is history.
After further investigations, I feel that the only locale that will be affected
is the zh_TW locale (traditional Chinese). IIIM/SunPinYin works very well in
the zh_CN environment. However, because of other problems (I will show them in
a separate thread and file a brief bug report), I don't think we will be able
to reach the general Taiwan market in this or the next release anyway. The
zh_TW market is significant b/c Taiwan is still the headquarters of essentially
all the PC manufacturers. I think this can be easily remedied by making a
special LiveDVD. I am basically a politician and not a developer, and if you
or your colleagues can help me put together a special distro for the zh_TW
locale, it will be really great.
That said, I still don't agree with most of your comments, but I believe that's
moot now. :-)
Thanks again.
--
This message posted from opensolaris.org
_______________________________________________
indiana-discuss mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
