Do we really require a regional language translation for this. To my opinion, its more important to convey the meaning of free or freedom in FSF's context to the people. Also adapting the english usage of free software to regional languages as such would give us an edge as we will have a common notation irrespective of the languages, which will make things more easier. This is my personal feeling as I don't have idea of the technicality of languages, and I feel adapting a word from another language will not do any harm, instead its one way enriching the language. ( Oxford dictionary now contains quite a lot of indian language words like guru).
 
regards
Vinu

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From: fsf-friends-bounces@mm.gnu.org.in [mailto:fsf-friends-bounces@mm.gnu.org.in] On Behalf Of Dileep M. Kumar
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 10:16 AM
To: fsf-friends@gnu.org.in
Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] Tamil translation for "free software"


On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:01:01PM +0530, Mahesh T. Pai wrote:

>>>I  am not  tamil speaking,  but am  familiar with  it. `Viduthalai'
>>>reminds me  me of `independence'  and 'liberation'. The  concept of
>>>freedom is better conveyed by the term 'swatantrayam', whatever way
>>>you spell it.

In  Malayalam   we  can  call  Free  Software   as  "Swatantra  Ganana
Soothram". What do other Malayalees in this list say ?

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