Management wrote:

> Beachcomber wrote:
> <SNIP>
>> The French hate Microsoft (even more than most people hate Microsoft)
>> because they are jealous of its success.
> <SNIP>
> Can you please refer me to the research to back this up, also I
> would love to see pictures of some of the millions of French PC
> users reluctantly using Windows.
>
>>
>> 1. Many French are sensitive about American Movies, but again there
>> is this jealousy because American Movies are the most popular in the
>> world.
>
> It does not pay to confuse popularity with quality :)
>
>>
>> 2. The one American many French profess to admire (besides Jerry
>> Lewis) is Walt Disney. Yet when Disneyland Paris opened in France,
>> many critics claimed it would be a "Cultural Chernobyl".
>
> But Disneyland *is* naff! (Unless you are under 10 years old.)
>
>> 3. The French hate the fact that Boeing (again an American Company)
>> is a dominant manufacturer of aircraft in the aviation industry and
>> were instrumental in creating Airbus (Headquartered in Toulouse,
>> France) to compete, constantly drawing on heavy government subsidies.
>>
>
> We brits make the wings - very good wings they are too and the
> planes are as much a pleasure to fly in as jumbos. The reality is
> that America and Europe can each afford to have only one
> manufacturer of large aircraft and they both need to be subsidised
> in one way or another.
>
> <SNIP>
> One reason is that the Euro (again, an
>> invention that was mostly promoted by France)is so high, that the
>> American Dollar is mostly in the dumps as far as exchange rate.
>
> The *low* value of the Euro has been a joke here for years. You need
> to look nearer to home, the dollar fell with the American economy -
> the Euro has been pretty stable against sterling (60-70 pence)over
> recent years whilst the dollar fell like lead towards 2 to the pound
> sterling. (It has risen somewhat lately.)
>
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>
> Charlie.
>
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>> Beachcomber
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The point is that linux is moving forward...That is the point.

Imhotep