On Monday 19 Feb 2007 14:11:51 Dhawal Doshy wrote: > Philip Tellis wrote: > > Sometime on Feb 17, Dhawal Doshy assembled some asciibets to say: > >> libre == free in french OR was it italian OR spanish?? f*** it!! libre > >> is just 'free' in a different language.. you could call it 'fookat' > >> software if you choose to.. btw whats the correct word for 'fookat' in > >> pure hindi?? > > > > libre != fookat. > > nopes libre == fookat > > > libre = free in the liberty sense (french derived from latin) > > This is your interpretation. > > > fookat = free in the monetary sense (muft in pure hindi) > > btw, muft is urdu. > > > What you really want is "mukt" or "azad" > > True.. but libre == fookat..
Uhhh, no Philip is correct. libre = free as in freedom, not free as in cost Said to me by a friend of mine who knows French and hasn't heard of Linux. -- ---------------------------------------- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net ----------------------------------------
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