RE: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-05-03 Thread Freivald, Joseph A, SOFED
l 30, 2002 11:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > There's no excuse about translating the manual as here in UK the > manuals are all in English ! English? Or American? -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft&

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-05-01 Thread John Summerfield
> > > > Standard English is indistinguishable from what you might term Standard > > Australian. Even my spoken English is often taken (by the English) as Engli > sh > > with an English accent, and I've never been outside Australia. > > > Right, this is all OT. Hmm. OT is often more fun. > > IMH

Re: Locale config (Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release))

2002-05-01 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > etting changes :) > Oh, and don't most Australians live on the East Coast? Regards, About 10% live in WA. I grew up in country WA - get your atlas out, in the Margaret River area. I lived in many years in Canberra then a few more in Melbourne. My wife grew up in Bri

Re: [OT] Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-05-01 Thread Paul Dorneanu
I do believe that the international price for rh boxes should be plain, cause, after all, we pay for the support, not for the product itself, isn't that? If I'm not right, next month I'll come in US and start living a better life there... or ... -- Spooky Mario Torre wrote: >On Tuesday 30 Ap

Re: [OT] Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-05-01 Thread Mario Torre
On Tuesday 30 April 2002 22:11, Thomas Dodd wrote: > Fuel pricers are higher with higher taxes in europe. But you can > live without a car there. You have state sponsored public transportation > and don't need to travel as far. Hey boy, you don't live in southern Italy... The overall Italian pol

Dialect discourse (Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release) )

2002-05-01 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- Riku Meskanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is not really one UK English. You should once > visit UK > to find this out and be amazed how hard it's first > to understand > people from such a small geographical area. Picking > up the ozzie > or other dialects from noth america are lot eas

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-05-01 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- Bill Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, it wasn't that funny, but I found a copy: > > http://www.bazza.com/sj/humour/Windiz98.html > > or > > http://www.billemon.org.uk/Fun/Windiz98.html Funny enough for you to archive it at least :) It's not PC, and I'd probably not show

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-05-01 Thread Bill Crawford
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Bill Crawford wrote: > I saw a very funny spoof once relating to a localization of Windows, > I think for the "Geordie" locale. For example the main menu would > have "Windiz" down the side ... OK, it wasn't that funny, but I found a copy: http://www.bazza.com/sj/humo

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-05-01 Thread Bill Crawford
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Riku Meskanen wrote: > How many of the more than 50 spoken major english dialects you > think would be worth localization? All or just few? > > There is not really one UK English. You should once visit UK > to find this out and be amazed how hard it's first to understand > pe

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-05-01 Thread Riku Meskanen
On Wed, 1 May 2002, John Summerfield wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, John Summerfield wrote: > > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > > There's no excuse about translating the manual as here in UK the > > > > manuals are all in English ! > > > > > > English? Or American? > > > > > What do you

Re: Locale config (Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release))

2002-04-30 Thread Kevin Waterson
On 30 Apr 2002 22:51:13 +0100 Michel Alexandre Salim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oh, and don't most Australians live on the East Coast? Most of us do, I live in Byron Bay on the East Coast but spent several years working in gold/nickal mines in WA. I spent much time in the desert and some t

Locale config (Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release))

2002-04-30 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 21:00, John Summerfield wrote: > Standard English is indistinguishable from what you might term Standard > Australian. Even my spoken English is often taken (by the English) as English > with an English accent, and I've never been outside Australia. > Impressive :) Not bei

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread Michael Schwendt
On 2002-04-30, Riku Meskanen wrote: :How much is the VAT at germany ? 16%, but with regard to the overall tax burden in Germany, I don't see any room for further increase. Btw, the prices at http://www.europe.redhat.com/shop/de/ are _including VAT_. Michael -- Trim Down Your Quotes http://ww

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 19:18, Riku Meskanen wrote: > How much is the VAT at germany ? > > :-) riku About 17% I believe :) Regards, -- Michel Alexandre Salim GPG public key at http://salimma.freeshell.org _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @y

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread John Summerfield
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, John Summerfield wrote: > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > There's no excuse about translating the manual as here in UK the > > > manuals are all in English ! > > > > English? Or American? > > > What do you expect, Red Hat manuals on scouse or geordie dialect? > > I d

Re: [OT] Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread Thomas Dodd
Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: >"KB" == Kathy Bieltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > KB> Americans may earn more but our government > KB> is no slouch at taking their cut. We may not > KB> get taxed they same way but we still pay through > KB> the nose too. > >Actually, this is a persistent b

[OT] Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
"KB" == Kathy Bieltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KB> Americans may earn more but our government KB> is no slouch at taking their cut. We may not KB> get taxed they same way but we still pay through KB> the nose too. Actually, this is a persistent but false myth. The total American tax b

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread Gene L Reynolds/GYR/CC01/INEEL/US
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Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread Riku Meskanen
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On 2002-04-30, Michèl Alexandre Salim wrote: > > : --- John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > :> The $229 at > :> http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/cat/distributions/redhat?elinux=fbb > :> 5971bd8446edb6fc692b26145b24e is definitely beyond > :

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread Kathy Bieltz
Americans may earn more but our government is no slouch at taking their cut. We may not get taxed they same way but we still pay through the nose too. Kathy Bieltz Michael Schwendt wrote: > On 2002-04-30, Michèl Alexandre Salim wrote: > > : --- John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > :>

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread Michael Schwendt
On 2002-04-30, Michèl Alexandre Salim wrote: : --- John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :> The $229 at :> http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/cat/distributions/redhat?elinux=fbb :> 5971bd8446edb6fc692b26145b24e is definitely beyond :> MY budget. :> :That's *really* cheap. In Europe it's mor

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread Riku Meskanen
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, John Summerfield wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > There's no excuse about translating the manual as here in UK the > > manuals are all in English ! > > English? Or American? > What do you expect, Red Hat manuals on scouse or geordie dialect? I doubt they have nor the o

RE: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- Trevor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Who knows... maybe it's because RH is trying to > reach greater market > penetration in the US then in Europe. One would think they'll try to win over the European market from SuSE. Right now SuSE wins on price and especially on price/CD (8 CDs + DVD fo

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > There's no excuse about translating the manual as > here in UK the > > manuals are all in English ! > > English? Or American? Good point :p. Cost breakdown would be: ... $40 - piping draft text through aspell ...

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > There's no excuse about translating the manual as here in UK the > manuals are all in English ! English? Or American? -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for m

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The $229 at > http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/cat/distributions/redhat?elinux=fbb > 5971bd8446edb6fc692b26145b24e is definitely beyond > MY budget. > That's *really* cheap. In Europe it's more like 230 Euro, which is probably at least 70% highe

RE: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread Trevor
> Is there any significantly more expensive factor behind the way Red Hat > prices its products overseas? I paid about 60 pounds - 90 US dollars - > for Red Hat professional 7.2. No, it's not the version that comes with a > DVD, so I really fail to see why I should buy every release when people >

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread John Summerfield
> Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 05:07, Guy Fraser wrote: > > > >>Besides how many of you, whiners even buy the boxed sets to support > >>development? > >> > > > > I do buy boxed sets - one in every series, normally, being a poor > > student. Also, the pricing in UK is

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread Paul Dorneanu
I am wondering who in romania is buying redhat. I would, if my buget will let me. -- Paul Dorneanu IT Manager - Webvolution.ro ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- Chris Tooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > > Is there any significantly more expensive factor > behind the way Red Hat > > prices its products overseas? I paid about 60 > pounds - 90 US dollars - > > for Red Hat professional 7.2. No, it's not the > version that

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread Chris Tooley
Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 05:07, Guy Fraser wrote: > >>Besides how many of you, whiners even buy the boxed sets to support >>development? >> > > I do buy boxed sets - one in every series, normally, being a poor > student. Also, the pricing in UK is rather higher than

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread Chris Tooley
Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 05:07, Guy Fraser wrote: > >>Besides how many of you, whiners even buy the boxed sets to support >>development? >> > > I do buy boxed sets - one in every series, normally, being a poor > student. Also, the pricing in UK is rather higher than