Re: French Gov handing out Linux in schools

From: Management (charlienospam_at_peartreegreen.org)
Date: 08/15/05 

Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:46:50 +0100

Beachcomber wrote:
<SNIP>
> The French hate Microsoft (even more than most people hate Microsoft)
> because they are jealous of its success.
<SNIP>
Can you please refer me to the research to back this up, also I
would love to see pictures of some of the millions of French PC
users reluctantly using Windows.

>
> 1. Many French are sensitive about American Movies, but again there
> is this jealousy because American Movies are the most popular in the
> world.

It does not pay to confuse popularity with quality :)

>
> 2. The one American many French profess to admire (besides Jerry
> Lewis) is Walt Disney. Yet when Disneyland Paris opened in France,
> many critics claimed it would be a "Cultural Chernobyl".

But Disneyland *is* naff! (Unless you are under 10 years old.)

> 3. The French hate the fact that Boeing (again an American Company)
> is a dominant manufacturer of aircraft in the aviation industry and
> were instrumental in creating Airbus (Headquartered in Toulouse,
> France) to compete, constantly drawing on heavy government subsidies.
>

We brits make the wings - very good wings they are too and the
planes are as much a pleasure to fly in as jumbos. The reality is
that America and Europe can each afford to have only one
manufacturer of large aircraft and they both need to be subsidised
in one way or another.

<SNIP>
One reason is that the Euro (again, an
> invention that was mostly promoted by France)is so high, that the
> American Dollar is mostly in the dumps as far as exchange rate.

The *low* value of the Euro has been a joke here for years. You need
to look nearer to home, the dollar fell with the American economy -
the Euro has been pretty stable against sterling (60-70 pence)over
recent years whilst the dollar fell like lead towards 2 to the pound
sterling. (It has risen somewhat lately.)

Charlie.

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> Beachcomber
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