From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jun 17 7:21: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2552537B406 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 07:21:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rahul.Siddharthan@lpt.ens.fr) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f5HEL0645862 ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 16:21:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id QAA68982 ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 16:21:55 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 16:21:55 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Brad Knowles Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mundie, Perens, GPL, BSD etc again Message-ID: <20010617162155.L61742@lpt.ens.fr> References: <000301c0f6fc$9d87fb60$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <20010617154910.I61742@lpt.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 04:14:22PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 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 Brad Knowles said on Jun 17, 2001 at 16:14:22: > 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. > > They buy virtually no Nokia, Ericsson, or Motorola cellular (GSM) > phones, but instead demand Sagem and Alcatel phones. But they do buy Mercedes... I can't see how any aesthetically minded person can buy the Mercedes A class, but there seems to be a market for it. Oh well, it looks better than the Smart. There are also quite a few BMW, a fair number of Volkswagen, and some Fiat and other European makes too (as I estimated above). Yes, they like French, but as second choice do they prefer European and therefore not buy Japanese or American? R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message