Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 16:21:55 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mundie, Perens, GPL, BSD etc again Message-ID: <20010617162155.L61742@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <p0510031eb7526a4135a4@[194.78.241.123]>; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 04:14:22PM %2B0200 References: <000301c0f6fc$9d87fb60$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <p05100318b7525d0f1bde@[194.78.241.123]> <20010617154910.I61742@lpt.ens.fr> <p0510031eb7526a4135a4@[194.78.241.123]>
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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
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