Baishampayan Ghose wrote:
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On Saturday 17 February 2007 09:05 PM, Dhawal Doshy cobbled together some glyphs to say:
Rony wrote:
That's why Free software is refered to as 'Libre' software and I heard the FSF chief use this term in his speech too at TIFR.
libre == free in french OR was it italian OR spanish?? f*** it!! libre is just 'free' in a different language.. you could call it 'fookat' software if you choose to.. btw whats the correct word for 'fookat' in pure hindi??
Libre in Spanish means ``Free as in Freedom'' (Swatantra or Mukt in Hindi). The Spanish for ``Fookat'' would be Gratis. The correct word for Gratis in Hindi would be Muft or Binamulya.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/libre has a different take on libre.
Also hindi was never a strong point for me (and most bombay/mumbai junta).. bambaiya, a bad mix of more urdu less hindi is..