On Monday 27 February 2006 23:22, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> How to embarrass yourself, British government version, trade and
> how-not-to-enforce copyrights department, section elementary reading
> skills (absent):
>
> http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?lp=de_en&url=http%3A//www.in
>tern.de/news/7711.html
>
> Sorry for the lousy translation, but have a laugh anyway...
> One wouldn't think it to be true, but it's not yet 1 April.
>
> Volker

Here's the original article from the TimesOnline:-
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2051196,00.html

The English is perfect. :-)

Linked off /.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/23/1330220

Evidently the "... lady in the Trading Standards department of a large 
northern town" had the greatest of difficulty understanding the meaning of 
the words in the GPL licence and the concept of 'gift'. 

-- 
CS

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