Hi George Yves,
We did not start out to discuss linguistics here but "updates" related to particular languages. The point was that I found out from what users tell me in the "virus and worms" section and particularly with website software and plug-ins some English patched versions were NOT been made available in other languages (Brazil, Indonesia).
For regions where the "lingua franca" or working language is other than English this could lead to security problems and indeed more infected sites.
The avast! software updater warned me to update VLC Media Player as a patch for a particular vulnerability had become available.
For the Dutch version of the software I had to wait another ten days for it to be implemented.
So it would be a good thing that software upgrades at once should be delivered in the main global languages like English, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic. If not whole areas will be confronted with so-called vulnerability gaps (vulnerabilty window stays open longer than needed).
In the case of my VLC Media Player that vulnerability gap for the Dutch version lasted for an additional 10 days....with Dutch speakers being only 0.4 % of the global population (Netherlands, Belgium Flanders, Surinam (and Afrikaans as a related language)) I'd now rather download that program in English.
polonus
