Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date)

[Paul Jarc]

Tomohiro KUBOTA <address@hidden> wrote:
> At Thu, 20 Dec 2001 23:57:58 +0000,
> Markus Kuhn wrote:
>> The nice thing about free software is that you get what you pay for. The
>> *only* people who matter as far as user requirements are concerned are
>> those who develop and perhaps those who take the time to carefully
>> document and justify their personal preferences in bug reports and
>> feature suggestions. Philosophical and hypothetical speculations about
>> uneducated preferences of absent and silent users won't bring us
>> further. Therefore, we should only be interested in what *YOU* need, not
>> in what you think that others think that you should think for them.
>
> Completely, no!  It is very likely that in next decade more and more
> people from countries whose people don't use computers today will
> come to use computers.  Your such idea distressed CJK people in last
> decade!  I never want force people who will join OpenSource world
> in next decade to suffer similar pain!!!

Future users can express their preferences just as well as present
users.  Why should we work so hard *now* for people who haven't even
started using the software yet, and who might not think what we expect
them to think?  Why not just wait for them to actually complain, and
then work to satisfy them only if and when that happens?


paul