[Typo3] Is TYPO3 used in amarica at all

Bill Alexy bill at psiberware.com
Tue Oct 4 01:10:09 CEST 2005


Patrick Gaumond wrote:

> 1- TYPO3 is not made in USA.
We sure do buy alot of Chinese and Japanese products. Most of our 
presses and direct mail machines are German. I love my Swiss Army watch. 
Trade deficit anyone?

> 2- TYPO3 use weird date format.
"i" before "e" except after "c" or when used as in "a" like neighbor or 
weigh.

> 3- TYPO3 prefer UK english and has lots of mistakes.
Many of our perfumes and fashion products are spelled with French words 
or UK English. It brands the products as more sophisticated than our 
pragmatic US English can convey. What's your favourite colour?

> 4- Open Source is communism.
I don't think most American's feel this way. I prefer free market.

> 5- You will keep your client with a custom made CMS, not with a CMS wich 
> is free(beer and money) to use.
If that's the case than why do most American Ad Agencies use Drupal?

> 6- TYPO3 is not made in USA.
Is it that you just hate Americans? I heard a statitic that over 80% of 
the Canadian population lives along the Canadian/US border. A credit to 
friendly relations I believe. We have much to learn about social 
responsibility in the US, but I think we Americans (which also means 
American immigrants) contribute in many other diverse ways as well.

> 
> Point 1 and 6 are maybe the main points.  ;)
I think the main point is that Americans are very pragmatic and are not 
early adopters of technology, just look at the cell phone industry 
around here, it's archaic. Our military uses old computers, because they 
are stable. I toured an Air Force cargo jet a couple of years ago. It 
was equiped with i486 computers and green monochromatic monitors.

The EU has certaintly embraced OpenSource for competitive reasons (i.e. 
not socialist reasons). For one, the democratic backlash against patent 
initives in the EU has discouraged closed source development and two, it 
helps the EU compete with the US because they aren't locked into US 
products like, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, Filemaker, Adobe, and so 
on. What's next, the OpenSource hamburger? Break free from McDonald's 
subversive paradigm.


> 
> Also, the fact that there was no English book available made it look too 
> much like a minor software. Now it's corrected.
More English books would definately be a plus, but only to get people up 
and going who have already shown interest. I don't think books would 
drive demand. Demand for Typo3 will encourage book development not the 
other way around.

> 
> By the way, I've found about 45 full websites (with their own domain) in 
> Province of Québec(Canada) so far. Things will change but will take time.
> 
> Patrick
> Québec City



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