Re: [xml-dev] RE: Encoding charset of HTTP Basic Authentication

["Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@codalogic.com>]

Original Message From: "Peter Flynn":

> The US 
> internal market is so large, and American SMEs (and some even bigger 
> ones) do so well out of it, that they have no need for foreign clients. 
> Not only do they not know where Europe is, but they actually don't give 
> a damn anyway.

Here's an amusing summary of the debate from a tweet I saw today!

https://twitter.com/#!/steipete/status/166412475321946112/photo/1

Pete.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Flynn" <peter@silmaril.ie>
To: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] RE: Encoding charset of HTTP Basic Authentication


> On 03/02/12 11:03, Pete Cordell wrote:
>> Welcome to XML Celebrity Slamdown!
>>
>> I'm giving the contestants 1 point each.
>>
>> One to Michael for mentioning American purchasing systems. I'm amazed
>> that very large American companies' purchasing systems still require you
>> to enter a US State and a phone number in the North American numbering
>> plan format. Lack of international awareness (or lack of international
>> concerns) is not a 20 year-old historical artefact.
> 
> It's not really surprising, no matter how annoying it is. The US 
> internal market is so large, and American SMEs (and some even bigger 
> ones) do so well out of it, that they have no need for foreign clients. 
> Not only do they not know where Europe is, but they actually don't give 
> a damn anyway.
> 
> There are also the barriers erected to cross-Atlantic business by the US 
> government *and* the EU authorities. US companies can't just ship goods 
> out by taking a parcel to the post office and sticking a stamp on it. 
> There are forms and rules and regulations designed to make it hard.
> 
> The well-known US multinationals do of course know all this, and happily 
> sell abroad, often well-disguised by localisation, but they still make 
> the same mistakes. Fortunately their forms are easy to fool.
> 
>> One to Len because I don't believe Unix would have got us to where we
>> are today.
> 
> Unix as it was certainly never would have:fragmented, expensive, and 
> laughably incompatible with everything except itself. And fat and 
> self-centred and complacent: they never saw Linux coming.
> 
> ///Peter
> 
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