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What I don't understand when I hear stories like these is why the hell not just use someone else's solution? Surely neighboring Québec had this sorted out ages
by gspr 5y ago
What I don't understand when I hear stories like these is why the hell not just use someone else's solution? Surely neighboring Québec had this sorted out ages ago – why not just duplicated whatever they did? Problem solved in no time.
Going further, I wonder why for example the EU doesn't try to get schemes going that facilitate the copying of IT solutions between member states. Why does every country have to reinvent the wheel?
- coldacid 5y agoI think even the Quebecois hate the French-Canadian keyboard layout. Certainly it's incredibly hated here in Ontario.
- kps 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSA_keyboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSA_keyboard is just awful — it uses ‘right Control’ as a graphic-shift modifier for most characters, instead of AltGraph/Option. (It also uses AltGraph/Option for some common characters like []<> and for French «».) You can't find a better example of government committee work anywhere.
- toyg 5y agoYou mean the Québécois, surely (sorry, couldn't resist - on topic for the thread...)
- jackjeff 5y agoI grew up in France and I hate the PC French keyboard with Alt Grrr with a passion.
- pas 5y agoCorruption, and putting too big emphasis on having their own system so they are not dependent on someone else. Hopefully we'll move past these eventually.
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- 908B64B197 5y agoSomeone told me they solved it quite simply and elegantly: There's a law that says: "For a computer system to be purchased by the government it must work in French". Implementation is then left to potential sellers.