Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 15:22:42 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Brad Knowles" <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, "Rahul Siddharthan" <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Mundie, Perens, GPL, BSD etc again Message-ID: <000501c0f77c$0694e300$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <p0510031eb7526a4135a4@[194.78.241.123]>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Brad Knowles [mailto:brad.knowles@skynet.be] >Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 7:14 AM >To: Rahul Siddharthan >Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; chat@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Mundie, Perens, GPL, BSD etc again > > >At 3:49 PM +0200 6/17/01, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > >> Is import duty the reason most cars around here seem to be European? >> I'd estimate 50%-60% of cars on French roads are French (Renault or >> Peugeot/Citroen), 30%-35% are from other European countries, and just >> a handful are Japanese or Korean and very few American. > > In France, import duties are part of the reason. The other part >of the reason is that most French people don't want to have anything >whatsoever to do with anything that isn't French. > Heh - yes that extends to French Canada too - apparently it's so bad in that province that there is a law on the books that if you put up a sign written in English, that the French translation has to be written right above it, in letters a minimum of twice as big. This despite that French is not the Canadian national language (another sore spot there) I had forgotten about the European import duties. I suppose that's why the US Government by and large pushed NAFTA through regardless of party lines (and the paid demonstrators that were picketing about it) Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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