On 2/27/11 10:56 AM, Lars Aronsson wrote:
In my opinion, we should let Germans write software
but
not welcome greetings, at least not in English
Well, this shouldn't be controversial at all!
Maybe a German wrote this originally, but the rest of us have had ample
opportunity to amend this. It's not German software; it's not American
software, it's OUR software. Rather than blame those who tried to fix a
problem, let's put our minds to work on coming up with an even better
solution.
Without dragging putative national characteristics into this, let's just
agree that our software could be nicer. The tone of its messages could
be improved, but more importantly, we need to reduce the need for there
to even be nagging messages.
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Neil Kandalgaonkar ( <neilk(a)wikimedia.org>