From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762635AbXGPJZU (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:25:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754978AbXGPJZH (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:25:07 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:46293 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754745AbXGPJZG (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:25:06 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Ganesan Rajagopal Subject: Re: [PATCH] Chinese Language Maintainer Followup-To: gmane.linux.kernel Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:10:28 +0530 Message-ID: References: <989B956029373F45A0B8AF0297081890F05F2F@zch01exm26.fsl.freescale.net> <200707121205.20959.rob@landley.net> <1184330583.23373.65.camel@Gundam> <200707131352.12952.rob@landley.net> <469A6370.4020404@zytor.com> <20070715195008.6bdf48c7@the-village.bc.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: grajagop-lnx.cisco.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.51 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:k23z4+2cSU9UJ/BZ8O1bbwhdWsE= Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> Alan Cox writes: > That aside, please remember that Europe as a whole is a small place on the > bigger world stage. The total volume of potential developers in the huge > and rapidly modernising nations like India and China is vast, and there > are large highly skilled technical nations that don't teach English to > everyone technical by default. Speaking for India only, while the medium of instruction in primary and high school is available in native languages, English is almost universally preferred. Moreover, technical education is completely in English. I don't see much value in translating developer documentation into Indian languages. User documentation is another story. Ganesan -- Ganesan Rajagopal