-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/27/07, Nguyen Dinh Nam <nguyendinhnam at gmail.com> wrote: > > We have been using the term "??c quy?n" for a long time since my > classmate, Tu?n Anh, started translating a few pages of gnu.org: > http://www.gnu.org/home.vi.html > We discussed a little and just use it since then, it was 1997, our > english skills were poor, but I still believe that it's the best term > because it associate that kind of software with something people, > especially Vietnamese people, doesn't like at all. >
I have been using the term "PM kh?ng t? do", but this translation has some edge. Especially, it reminds me of some sentences in "Free Software and Beyond: Human Rights in the Use of Software and Other Published Works": "Support for a proprietary program is a monopoly, because only the developer has the source code, so only the developer can make any change." "But when it's a choice between proprietary software products, yes there're monopoly, because the user who chooses this product, then falls into this monopoly for support, but if the user chooses this product, he falls into this monopoly for support. So really it's a choice between monopolies, and the only way to escape from monopolies is to escape from proprietary software, to escape to the free world." Recording at <http://www.fsfe.org/en/advocacy/audio_videos> A transcript is available at <http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Free_Software_and_Beyond:_Human_Rights_in_the_Use_of_Software_and_Other_Published_Works> And didn't Microsoft Peru agree that support is the real part of its software business? <http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reply_to_Microsoft#Microsoft_Claim_6:_Free_Software_is_not_free_of_charge> Hi?u -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG+8DDh4dScvxKz04RAn/JAJ0ahhUZUr3mXuf0FdGD/4l36SIysQCfbM4x HoQiPgPAxUxsA/KK3mou00A= =l6rA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
