Re: Overview: Rewrite

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 14:05 +0630, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 10:51 +0630, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview page needs a rewrite. Does any of 
> >> the word smiths here help out with that?
> >>
> >> Details at
> >>
> >> http://marc.info/?l=fedora-marketing-list&m=118136110006398&w=2
> > 
> > I only had time to make trivial changes tonight -- please keep in mind
> > that the word "free" is not capitalized in these use cases.
> 
> How do you differentiate between Free as in freedom vs free as in gratis?

You could use "free/libre" for example.  But capitalizing the word isn't
the right way to do this in English; instead it implies the use of a
brand name, trademark, or other proper name, which I'm sure isn't the
meaning for which you're looking.

-- 
Paul W. Frields, RHCE                          http://paul.frields.org/
  gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233  5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717
           Fedora Project: http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/
  irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part

-- 
fedora-docs-list mailing list
fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: 
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list

[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Users]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Red Hat 9]     [Yosemite News]     [KDE Users]

  Powered by Linux