Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 21:27:04 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why no Indians and Arabs? Message-ID: <3C1C30A8.633D60A3@mindspring.com> References: <20011216124818.L62493@monorchid.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > I was recently asked the question in a private Email: why are there no > Arabs in the FreeBSD project? At least, I don't know of any. Also, > I know of only one Indian in the project (Joseph Koshy). We have > plenty of people from other countries. Any ideas why this should be? You're wrong, but of course it could be offensive for me to give a partial list (either by listing people by their ethnicity, or by missing someone, since either could be taken the wrong way). Suffice it to say that I'm more interested in identifying the Germans so that they can disassemble my Windows Winmodem drivers, etc., to document the interfaces, and let me program FreeBSD versions (since they're legally allowed to do that under German law), and the South Africans (who can export crypto to the rest of us). If the U.S. government doesn't have a problem with establishing rules which force public projects to establish engineering and cryptographic center of excellence any place _but_ the U.S., neither do I... In other words, the only thing that really matters about ethnicity or nationality, as far as I'm concerned, is relative access to the information needed for programming, and ability to share it with others (e.g. "me"). 8^) -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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