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Oct 29, 2007, 11:26 AM
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OT [Re: The Bigger... Disk contest, Fall 2007 edition]
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On 10/26/07, Brian Wood <beww [at] beww> wrote:
> Tony Godshall wrote:
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> > Linux is Free, not free, and you don't have to keep paying over and
> > over and over and over...
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> You have discovered (another) limitation of English. Spanish handles
> that with Gratis and Libre, both of which translate as "free" in English.
Thus the L in FLOSS. En English the shorthand is to capitalize, which
works fine except for the beginning of a sentence.
Oops. I stared that sentence with "En". It's odd how the mind shifts gears.
Yes, I speak Spanish fluently and I didn't just "discover" libre. Linux es
software libre pero no es por necessidad gratuito. Never did get accents tho.
Tony
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