On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:06:23AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
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.
And one of the China's. I think it's Tiawan, not the PRC.
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.
Yes, and it really does not matter, IMHO. The fact that it might
benefit 100 million people, or even a billion somewhere else in the
world is almost irrelevant, it it benefits 4.5 million Israelis, or
even just 10,000 of them if they are poor.
Focus on the benefit to Israel.
Geoff.
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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM
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