Nguyen Vu Hung a ?crit : > Yes I know. But please keep in mind that I am seeking for a *good enough* > translation of this word, not to explain the meaning of the word. > Agreed. :-D
> For those who is outside the FOSS world, it is very hard to explain what is > FOSS in a short sentence while not to make them misunderstand. > Right. > It is very hard to balance the length of the word and the meaning it has. > It is even harder it we want to keep the translation 1-1. > "PM ddo'ng" is not enough. How about > "PM ddo'ng va kho^ng mie^~n phi'" as suggested in > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_software > Ooops... Do you really mean "mie^~n phi'" ? Don't you mean "tu+. do" instead? So it would be "PM ddo'ng hoa.c kho^ng tu+. do". But it's not really a short sentence as you said... I would suggest you could collect all the answers and put them into a page on our wiki. It would allow to see every proposals at once and choose the one most appropriate depending on the situation. -- Jean Christophe "????" ANDR? ? http://asie-pacifique.auf.org/ Responsable technique r?gional Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AuF) ? Bureau Asie-Pacifique (BAP) Adresse postale : AUF, 21 L? Th?nh T?ng, T.T. Ho?n Ki?m, H? N?i, Vi?t Nam T?l. : +84 4 9331108 Fax : +84 4 8247383 Mobile : +84 91 3248747 ? Note personnelle : merci d'?viter de m'envoyer des fichiers PowerPoint ? ? ou Word, voir http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.fr.html ?
