From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 15 21:27:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C47B237B405 for ; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 21:27:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0120.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.120] helo=mindspring.com) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16FTpG-0004dg-00; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 21:27:02 -0800 Message-ID: <3C1C30A8.633D60A3@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 21:27:04 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Why no Indians and Arabs? References: <20011216124818.L62493@monorchid.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Greg Lehey wrote: > I was recently asked the question in a private Email: why are there no > Arabs in the FreeBSD project? At least, I don't know of any. Also, > I know of only one Indian in the project (Joseph Koshy). We have > plenty of people from other countries. Any ideas why this should be? You're wrong, but of course it could be offensive for me to give a partial list (either by listing people by their ethnicity, or by missing someone, since either could be taken the wrong way). Suffice it to say that I'm more interested in identifying the Germans so that they can disassemble my Windows Winmodem drivers, etc., to document the interfaces, and let me program FreeBSD versions (since they're legally allowed to do that under German law), and the South Africans (who can export crypto to the rest of us). If the U.S. government doesn't have a problem with establishing rules which force public projects to establish engineering and cryptographic center of excellence any place _but_ the U.S., neither do I... In other words, the only thing that really matters about ethnicity or nationality, as far as I'm concerned, is relative access to the information needed for programming, and ability to share it with others (e.g. "me"). 8^) -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message