OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/21343/Red_Hat_Maps_Open_Source_Activity Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:42:54 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Is true http://www.osnews.com/thread?359702 http://www.osnews.com/thread?359702 I am from Spain and I work in an opensource project paid by a German company! Both parts have a part of OpenSource culture... which is great in long term! We work on Windows, but at least OpenSource is there... Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ciplogic) Comments No Papua New Guinea? WTF??! http://www.osnews.com/thread?359723 http://www.osnews.com/thread?359723 I'm amazed Papua New Guinea isn't listed! Arf... Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Liquidator) Comments On est les champions! http://www.osnews.com/thread?359724 http://www.osnews.com/thread?359724 We like open source in France because we like the idea of having a bunch of engineers work for us for free. Plus those guys don't go on strike, what more can we ask for? Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Ventajou) Comments Nice for Tunisia ! http://www.osnews.com/thread?359756 http://www.osnews.com/thread?359756 I am from Tunisia,

It's nice to see it the first among arabic countries and ok, it's second in Africa.

This is thanks to the growing community of open source users.

We also do many greet events, but, why government rank is the same as Algeria ? I haven't ever hear about their activities there ! Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (boulabiar) Comments don't care for France http://www.osnews.com/thread?359886 http://www.osnews.com/thread?359886 France doesn't like to use English words even for new words that have never existed before. They create their own that only they use.

Also a lot of their open source projects are full of comments in french, variable names in french etc.

Countries with a lot worse English skills still use English in their comments and code because they know it is the right thing to do.

I'm not a an arrogant American saying "Everyone should speak English", but come on... in code it is pretty universal. If you program, you speak English. If you put comments other than English it is you that is being arrogant or lazy.

If the French had their way we'd see code like...

pour x dans éventail(10):
    imprimez 'Bonjour Monde!'

Come on... any programming language worth a damn has keywords in English.

::ducks::

Edited: Had to duck and put non-breaking spaces for indentation.Edited 2009-04-22 15:47 UTC Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (FunkyELF) Comments RE: don't care for France http://www.osnews.com/thread?359890 http://www.osnews.com/thread?359890
France doesn't like to use English words even for new words that have never existed before


You mean like how most non-English languages have words that, GASP, are completely different from English?

Countries with a lot worse English skills still use English in their comments and code because they know it is the right thing to do.


Who says it's the right thing to do? You?

If you program, you speak English. If you put comments other than English it is you that is being arrogant or lazy.


Alternatively people who expect everyone to use English in comments are lazy and arrogent.
Come on... any programming language worth a damn has keywords in English.


For the time being, yes. Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments RE: don't care for France http://www.osnews.com/thread?360024 http://www.osnews.com/thread?360024 Maybe the project you looked at wasn't supposed to be opensourced yet when the guys coded it? Hence the comments in their own language... Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Liquidator) Comments