2008/9/4 Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2. A request that technologies developed stay in Israel. > > 2 is a problem for FOSS. While I have heard of companies that managed to > convince the CS to fund a project where some of the work went into FOSS > (and, in fact, Wine), it was as part of a larger project that was > proprietary. I have not heard of the CS funding a purely FOSS project. >
The fact that you are focusing on BiDi support suggests that while the technology you develop would be _available_ outside Israel, there is little to no need for it outside Israel and thus it's use would be almost exclusively in Israel. Arabic and Persian users will enjoy your efforts, and that is outside Israel, but it is obvious that your efforts are meant to further the development of the technology specifically for the Israeli market. Furthermore, from familiarity with the wine mailing list, there is almost zero request for BiDi support from Arabic users, versus very many requests from Hebrew users. Also, Arabic and Persian users would have additional issues to the BiDi issues, which you would not be addressing. I am certain that someone with a bit of talent could reword my previous paragraph in a form that would be very convincing that the technologies you would develop would stay, for all intents and purposes in any useful form, in Israel. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü
