On 2001 November? 26 ,Monday 01:24, Nadav Har'El wrote:
Not true... Almost all Gnu software, except perhaps GNOME, was very much
alive before Linux. Emacs, Gcc, Gdb, Bash, Groff, GNU make, bison,
fileutils, just as a few examples, and non-gnu stuff like Ghostscript, Tex,
X-Windows, TCL/TK and
Shai Bentin wrote:
Well, Usually IBM used to do its localization using a group (a company
it owned) called Softel, which was set in Jerusalem. When IGSI was
established IBM incorporated Softel into IGSI. It may have taken some of
the localization development and moved it into IBM Haifa. The
Shalom Matitiahu,
First of all I am always very impressed with the work carried out and
sponsered by IBM. Please keep it up!
I wonder if your group has an official road map of what areas you
will spend energy (and funding) in with regards to BiDi in the near
future. Especially I wonder if you
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:15:56PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* BiDi in the wv project (library for reading MicroSoft documents).
Looks out of wv's scope to me. IMHO, wv should simply return Unicode
data to AbiWord, KWord etc. which do their own bidi (both of them do
now, with the advent
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
those 2 projects is very welcome to the IL linux community, but is there
something more that IBM didn't reveal and planning to reveal next month?
We all will be more clever after December 5.
And this is true for Rational plans too (discussed here 2-3 days ago).
But don't
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote about Hebrew Linux from IBM?:
As usual mr. Dudi Goldman made some mistakes
2. Contrary to the belief - you CAN charge money for a GPL application
(provided that it comes with the source, and for a reasonable amount). Of
course you can once you
On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote:
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote about Hebrew Linux from IBM?:
As usual mr. Dudi Goldman made some mistakes
2. Contrary to the belief - you CAN charge money for a GPL application
(provided that it comes with the source, and for a
IBM also doing bidi support for open office
and btw IBM only did bidi support for the renderer of mozilla
not for the printing.
Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel
On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Eli Marmor wrote:
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
those 2 projects is very welcome to the
I also saw the article and there were a quite a few thinsg that
irretated me:
* Dudi Goldman does not seem to understand that all that Linux is
doing, has been doing, and will be doing is kernel work. We all
take it quite leasurly that the whole system is being called Linux
and we know
On Sunday 25 November 2001 18:35 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
He doesn't even mention the abbreviation GNU in the article, though
he got the stuff about Richard Stalman and his manifesto right.
Oof, I hate this GNU-before-linux-thing!
Mr. RMS has met once Elizabeth from Linux Weekly News
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* About Torvalds comments - being from Scandinavia, I am not surprised
at all about them. They all fit the Why cannot everyone in the
world get along just like we do? attitude.
What do you mean? Like the Norwegians and the Swedes? No love lost
there, to put it
Well, Usually IBM used to do its localization using a group (a company
it owned) called Softel, which was set in Jerusalem. When IGSI was
established IBM incorporated Softel into IGSI. It may have taken some of
the localization development and moved it into IBM Haifa. The people in
tel aviv are
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote about Re: OT Re: Hebrew Linux from IBM?:
...
True - GNU stuff was available before Linux, just like the *BSD stuff was
before Linux available - but once Linux became wildly acceptible and popular
- there has been MUCH more GNU stuff
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