RE: [OT] Re: Farsi issues

2001-05-14 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Edward Cherlin wrote: > It is worse than that. US embargoes on trade, travel, and > communication help to keep the targeted governments (North Korea, > Iraq, Cuba, Libya, Burma, etc.) in power by increasing their control > over information and preventing the rise of a serious opposition, > whi

Re: Farsi issues

2001-05-14 Thread N.R.Liwal
> It may sound cynical, but I think they should try to track the "pirate" > market as well, since the people who are using MS software now (even if > illegally obtained) may well be the ones who will buy the legal software > when they can. Its certainly an interesting way to make a long term busin

Re: [OT] Re: Farsi issues

2001-05-13 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Sat, 12 May 2001, Edward Cherlin wrote: > >Personally speaking, I see that US government is > >not punishing our government, but our people. > > It is worse than that. US embargoes on trade, travel, and > communication help to keep the targeted governments (North Korea, > Iraq, Cuba, Libya, Bu

[OT] Re: Farsi issues

2001-05-13 Thread Edward Cherlin
At 10:44 PM +0430 5/12/01, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: >Personally speaking, I see that US government is >not punishing our government, but our people. It is worse than that. US embargoes on trade, travel, and communication help to keep the targeted governments (North Korea, Iraq, Cuba, Libya, Bur

[OT] Re: Farsi issues

2001-05-12 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Sat, 12 May 2001, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote: > Yes, I did palm this card, sorry about that. I do believe that once other > issues are resolved that this one will resolve itself as well. There will be > trade again some day -- possibly even in this administration if enough big > businesses

Re: Farsi issues

2001-05-12 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Roozbeh Pournader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I would heartily recommend that you and the council (and everyone there!) > > work to solve the problem that is blocking foreign software companies from > > doing business in Iran: the international copyright issue. > > I highly agree with you. I

Re: Farsi issues

2001-05-12 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote: > I would heartily recommend that you and the council (and everyone there!) > work to solve the problem that is blocking foreign software companies from > doing business in Iran: the international copyright issue. I highly agree with you. I hav

Re: Farsi issues

2001-05-09 Thread Edward Cherlin
At 5:47 AM -0700 5/9/01, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote: [snip] >I don't know the official MS story on Farsi support for XP and beyond, but I >have to believe that the unavailability of Farsi's single most compelling >market has to have a negative impact on priorities. Wouldn't you agree? The seco

Farsi issues (was Re: Persian letters Kaf and Heh with Yeh above)

2001-05-09 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Roozbeh Pournader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I really hope that all the problems of Microsoft Persian keyboard gets > fixed in the shipping version of XP. Well, good luck on this one. With Beta 2 out, its really unlikely that you will see a change at this point in Windows, if it has not alrea