I and many people I know from different oranizations call proprietary software "ph?n m?m ??c quy?n".
On 9/26/07, David Tremblay <david at roy-tremblay.net> wrote: > > > > > Theo em, ?? d? hi?u v? ng?n g?n, n?n d?ch l? "PM ??ng" v? c? ch? th?ch > > > n?u c?n. > > > > > Still I can't agree with this one too because "??ng", meaning "closed" > > (a FSF "word to avoid") doesn't include Open Source softwares not totaly > > Free, which should be included per FSF and Wikipedia definitions. > > "word to avoid" by FSF are too many and they are dealing with english > language and North american culture, which already translate with > difficulties in many other place. Some of their suggestion are good but > they also don't suggest anything in vietnamese ... > > Why don't you use "closed and non-free" to make sure that your audience > understand that you are talking about software that is not "open > source". > > When translating that one have to translate the meaning, the essence but > it must also translate it to its audience : colonialist software, > enslaving software, unfree, "user subjugating software" > > The main thing to understand in proprietary is that the software as a > "proprietor" some one who own the right whatever they want with the > software. This is the meaning you want to convey. > > Interesting discussion over here > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_software > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > HanoiLUG mailing lists: http://lists.hanoilug.org/mailman/ > HanoiLUG wiki: http://wiki.hanoilug.org/ > HanoiLUG blog: http://blog.hanoilug.org/
