🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <DDwqvC.6C6@freenet.carleton.ca>, 
  ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Colin R. Leech) writes:
>  
> Well, some people look for conspiracies behind every tree. Just because
> they're paranoid doesn't mean they're right. How long before the Spanish,
> Finnish, Ukranian, or Swahili versions of Win95 are released? Since Microsoft
> is American, I doubt if they even have an "English" version available! :-)
>  

   As I understand the issue (as reported on CBC radio) it's not that
the French Canadian version isn't ready - it's that MS isn't ready to
release Win95 in France yet, and when they do they plan to charge a
lot more than they're charging in North America. They are concerned
that sales of a French version in Quebec would harm the market for the
"official" French version. Seems the real question should be *why* the
version for France is being delayed and sold for more money. 

   Of course any suggestion by Mr. Parizeau or others that this is some
sort of deliberate snub against Quebec is sheer nonsense, but then it's
the sort of silly rhetoric I would expect from him. I'm sure Bill 
Gates couldn't care less about Quebec politics.

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