[Fsf-friends] Tamil translation for "free software"

[Mahesh T. Pai]

Richard M. Stallman said on Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 10:53:32PM -0500,:
 >     2) The appropriate equivalent of the word freedom in
 >     Tamil is 'sudanthiram' rather than 'viduthalai' as
 >     mentioned here
 >     (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html).
 > 
 > Do people agree?

Yes.

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.


 
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