[Patents] (pas d'objet)

[Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr> (Bernard Lang)]

  you are an anonymous frenchman

Bernard

On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 10:01:53AM +0200, Chris wrote:
> 
> > "So much better manners" are not the french way.
> > Bernard was making is point, telling you about his feelings. You're
> objecting
> > because he expressed it in a way you are not accustomed to. This is
> > primarily a cultural point. Most people on this list will not be
> chocked by
> > what or how he told it.
> 
> Sorry, but I am a Frenchman, and I was shocked !
> 
> It is cultural, perhaps, but this is no excuse (for Bernard's desire for
> political analogies: killing people could also be "cultural").
> And I do not want to be assimilated to this "bad frenchy behavior" that
> we (as a group) have sometimes (?)... and I see no reason why we are so
> proud of our unpolitness that we force foreigner to face it !
> 
> I do understand that political issues may intervene in the swpat debate.
> There is no question about it.
> We can also be sure that the behavior of the USA could be analysed in
> order to better understand our swpat issue (I am not so sure, but ok, I
> won't object)
> But this is no excuse for agressing people like this: the recipient of
> Bernard's remark was not deemed to be the speaker for his country !  One
> can be ungry about the USA behavior, but this no reason to aggress
> people in the list!
> 
> Chris
> 
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