Re: [linuxiran] i18n of Mandrake Linux

[Arash Zeini]

On Tuesday 08 July 2003 11:39, Abbas Izad wrote:

[...]

> >Anyway, I think it's a great idea. HP is selling computers with
> > Mandrake (which I believe is the first brand name desktop to come with
> > Linux) and Wal-Mart was selling Mandrake (they don't anymore for some
> > reason.) Unfortunately my Farsi is not good enough for translating
> > into Farsi (or even
> >using it) but I'd really like to see Mandrake in Farsi.
>
> Your wish to see Mandrake in Farsi soon to be fulfilled.
> I brought up this issue for two reasons, one to encourage people who
> want to work for thier
> country to step forward ( no matter who is in charge politically) and
> the second as an announcement
>
> I waited some days to see if somebody is intressted in this but your
> respond here is the only one!
> Yesterday I took coordination roll of translation of Mandrake and I
> appreciate if you or anybody else
> join me in this effort.
>
> Thank you hooman for your respond! I guess you live outside of Iran, is
> that correct?
>
> Best regards
> Abbas

We, at Chapar Shabdiz, talked to Mandrake for a while and didn't achieve 
very good results. That was before you brought this subject up.
From a commercial POV working with foreign commercial distributions is not 
a commercially interesting point as there is almost no way to earn any 
money with it in Iran.
I.e: if you want to sell a (foreign) boxed product in Iran, you are more 
likely to loose money than to earn any. 
I am saying this because you referred to Chapar Shabdiz as a possible 
partner to Mandrake.
Another point to consider was the fact that Mandrake has not been doing 
very well, which makes the situation a little bit shaky.

In these cases it is always better to look at it from an open and Free POV. 
With FarsiKDE on our plan, are not willing to take much more load at this 
moment.
Hence your efforts to work with Mandrake is most welcome and very much 
appreciated.
Please feel free to use this mailing list to post updates on your progress.

Greetings,
Arash
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