[Fsf-friends] Malayalam

[Mahesh T. Pai]

Anivar Aravind said on Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:39:02AM +0800,:

 > I  think "Swathanthra software  Fountation" is  more communicatable
 > than "Swathanthra software Prathishtanam".

I decided to use `Prathishtaan', like `swatantra', is a word common in
several Indian languages. True,  prathishtaan is rarely used in common
usage.  Instead, people  use  terms like  `trust',  `society' etc.  in
their transliterated form.

`Foundation'  like `free'  takes different  and unrelated  meanings in
different  contexts.  <light  vein>  So,  you  can  translate  FSF  as
`Swatantra Software Adithara'</light vein>.

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