UnitedLinux and "open source"

[Rodrigo Barbosa]

On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 03:14:53PM -0700, Andy Tai wrote:
> I know everything you are saying.  Based on 
> John "Maddog" Hall's story
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6129&mode=thread&order=0
> 
> it seems in Brazil, Software Livre > C?digo Aberto
> already by a large margin.

What do you mean ? That the expression "Software Livre" is more 
used then Código Aberto ? Well, actually, I do think it is true.
And most people here have no idea what the difference is, let
alone that there is a difference at all. 

[]s


> 
> --- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at tisbrasil.com.br> wrote:
> >  
> > Free Software (fsf.org) and Open Source
> > (opensource.org) are
> > completly different matters. 
> > Some portuguese translations:
> > 
> > Free Software (as in fsf.org/gnu.org) -> Software
> > Livre
> > Open Source (as in opensource.org)    -> C?digo
> > Aberto
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 12:04:51PM -0700, Andy Tai
> > wrote:
> > > Ah-haa... See the problem with the name "Open
> > Source"?
> > > I hope people in Brazil you just use the name
> > > "software livre" for Open Source and avoid all the
> > > problems in the English language.  I hope the OSI
> > > adapts the name "software libre" and "software
> > livre"
> > > as the official translation of the term Open
> > Source in
> > > Spanish and Portuguese and avoid any literal
> > > translation of "Open Source" in these languages.
> > > 
> 
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