On Sun, 19 May 2002, "Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So basically, what you want us to do is to tell newbies "Well, Linux IS > easy to learn! But first, you'll need to learn a new alphabet first!!". No, you misunderstood. My rant went well beyond Linux -- Hebrew on Linux is just a symptom of a larger problem. We should fix this problem. as a culture. > If there is anything stupid or silly here, it's not the alphabet - it's your > opinion. It might be a great idea to change our alphabet, it's direction of > writing, our language and maybe even our religion to fit better with "the > ways of the world" Where the fuck did you see me mentioning anything about "the rest of the world?" I gave arguments why the Hebrew alphabet is intrinsically stupid. > Linux hackers are in any > position to do or even to suggest. Lucky, "Linux hacker" describes me partially. "A memeber of the Israeli culture" is also a facet of me. As, I think, of you. We can change the culture, or at least the bits which are iditotic. > Linux hackers have to operate within the > world that already exists Reasonable people change to fit the world. You know the rest of the saying... > Political activists are the ones that should be trying to change that world. Many hackers are political activists. "Join us now and share the software", anyone? ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
