[Typo3] Is TYPO3 used in amarica at all

[Elmar Hinz]

> 
> No idea but its mildly interesting isn't it?  One possible reason is the 
> mixture between the two social-economic systems of Europe and America. 
> Canada has a bit of the American consumerism and culture and a bit of 
> the European (it is a country founded from British and French colonies) 
> social awareness and culture perhaps...

I guess there is something in this analysis. Canadian and europan people 
share the scepticism against culture-economical monopolisms that seem to 
be an essential part of the official american dream. Economical and 
media monopols, success stories that daily prove the truth of the 
american dream: Coca cola, Mc Donalds, Microsoft, Time-Warner etc.

In the eyes of the rest of the world this economical self-conception 
often looks like lack of culture. People tend to solidarize against it, 
to defend personal freedom and plurality. It is well known in other 
countries, that there is a huge minority of people in USA that share 
this multicultural consciousness. Typically they tend to life at the 
coasts and in the north of USA. That are the regions most postings of 
americans in this thread come from, if I counted them rightly.

I would state, that open source software is a part of this earth wide 
solidary movement against economical and cultural monopolisms and for 
freedom of small business.

Regards

Elmar


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