[SFD-discuss] What does "Software Freedom" mean?

Georg Sluyterman georg at thecrew.dk
Mon Jul 9 18:48:04 EDT 2007


Marcelo skrev:
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> why isn't the event called "Free Software Day" then? (providing an answer to that
> question would help a lot with translating it properly)
> 
The word "free" is a little confusing. It could for example mean "free
as in free beer" or "free as in free speech" (gues wich free software is
refering to ;-)

In danish its much simpler. the translation of free software is: "Fri
software". 'Fri' means "free as in free speech".

If you look at this site:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fs-translations.html, you will find that
the translation of "free software" to spanish is: software libre

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Regards Georg Sluyterman
njlug.dk, Aalborg, Denmark



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