discuss: [ATTN: lists are moving on April, 15th]
Subject:
Re: [ATTN: lists are moving on April, 15th]
From:
Alexander Bartolich ####@####.####
Date:
14 Apr 2002 13:29:19 -0000
Message-Id: <3CB98402.7080500@gmx.at>
Charles Curley wrote:
> [...]
> English won't necessarily remain the main language of the
> Internet or of the LDP. The Economist is of the opinion that
> the largest language on the Internet will be Chinese by the
> middle of the XIth Century.
This bullshit argument is periodically coming forward since the 60s.
Up to now the internet is build on English. Unless the Chinese
provide their own net, with a complete set of RFCs, FAQs,
operating systems and daemons like bind, sendmail and apache,
nobody has a reason to switch to Chinese.
Which means that either somebody translates existing stuff.
Or they stay beyond the great wall of cultural ignorance.
Anyway, this is not really a rant against the Chinese.
IMHO they are very pragmatic people and will manage the
problems on their own.
