From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jun 17 15:23:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00B3F37B405 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 15:23:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f5HMMgl63139; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 15:22:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Brad Knowles" , "Rahul Siddharthan" Cc: Subject: RE: Mundie, Perens, GPL, BSD etc again Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 15:22:42 -0700 Message-ID: <000501c0f77c$0694e300$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >-----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