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Date:      Sun, 17 Jun 2001 15:22:42 -0700
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "Brad Knowles" <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, "Rahul Siddharthan" <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
Cc:        <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Mundie, Perens, GPL, BSD etc again
Message-ID:  <000501c0f77c$0694e300$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <p0510031eb7526a4135a4@[194.78.241.123]>

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brad Knowles [mailto:brad.knowles@skynet.be]
>Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 7:14 AM
>To: Rahul Siddharthan
>Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; chat@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Re: Mundie, Perens, GPL, BSD etc again
>
>
>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.
>

Heh - yes that extends to French Canada too - apparently it's so bad in
that province that there is a law on the books that if you put up a sign
written
in English, that the French translation has to be written right above it,
in letters a minimum of twice as big.  This despite that French is not the
Canadian national language (another sore spot there)

I had forgotten about the European import duties.  I suppose that's why the
US
Government by and large pushed NAFTA through regardless of party lines (and
the
paid demonstrators that were picketing about it)


Ted Mittelstaedt                      tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of:          The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Book website:         http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com



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