Re: [linuxiran] farsi linux site

[Aryan Ameri]

On Tuesday 24 June 2003 20:14, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> Mr Roozbeh Pournader from the FarsiWeb project at Sharif
> University of Technology has provided his word list and around
> 3000 translated messages of kde-base to Mr Arash Zeini long time
> ago, which Arash Zeini has wrote that he has used around 25% of
> the messages.

Well I need to clear this. So that new users on this list are not 
confused.

Mr. Pournader translated kdelibs (not kdebase) and kdelibs contained 
3,000 strings. Instead of sending that file to Arash Zeini, (Which was 
the coordinator of FarsiKDE project) he sent them to KDE release dude 
(Thomas I guess) and asked KDE to replace Arash Zeini, and put his name 
as the coordinator of FarsiKDE. He also demanded the language name to 
be changed to Persian. Note that Mr. Pournader never sent his messages 
to Arash. Arash simply got those messages, when Thomas Forwarded 
Mr.Pournader's email to Arash.

KDE guys rejected Mr. Pournader's request. He later shut down our 
mailing list, which were hosted at Sharif University's servers. For 
more information, take a look at this email 
http://lists.sharif.edu/pipermail/farsikde/2002-August/000413.html
or the whole mailing list archive, which is still available.

And I have to say, that if you take a deeper look at that archive, you 
can see how hard I tried to unite the project, and heal the wounds. I 
invited Mr.Pournader and Arash to have a meeting at my place (they 
refused to go to each other's offices). Roozbeh rejected my offer. 

So, even if some of Roozbeh Pournader's translation, (which were not 
meant for our use) were somehow initialy used in our translation, I can 
assert everyone, that they were all re-translated, to match our 
translation database, and to make a consistent translations. 

> BTW, RedHat 9 has GNOME translations from Roozbeh Pournader too.

Oh, does that mean that instead of giving his translations to Gnome 
Mr.Pournader has given them straight to RedHat? So that now RedHat has 
got an advantage over other distros in this regard?

Or are you reffering to that *one thousand* strings of Gnome which have 
been translated? And RedHat suddenly came up with the idea of adding a 
language to their Gnome, which Gnome it self doesn't support?

PS: I have always regarded you Behdad, as a highly competent hacker, and 
I will always be thankful to you, for your work on Qt, TeX, and other 
free software projects. However, I never underestood when you decided 
to become my enemy. I never knew why you suddenly changed your mind 
about me.

I still remember my first post to the old LinuxIran mailing list, and 
the phone call which I had with you afterwards, and the meetings which 
I had with you, and I truly enjoyed your hacking abilities. However, 
those days are long gone. You have publicly humilated me twice. 
Remember how you and your brother Behnam, got the Persian Mozilla 
Project out of my hands? Remember everything that you told me, ( 
nane-jende and mother fucker among other things) in front of the 
mozilla community? And remember a couple of months ago, when you again 
flamed me in this mailing list, for a disagreement over RedHat?

Just what happened to Persian Mozilla? What did you do with it after you 
got it from me? After you made me, the coordinator of the project, 
leave the project which I cared about? Did you or behnam ever spend a 
minute a minute of your time on it?

Just when and why you decided to piss me off, at every possible moment?
   

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Aryan Ameri