Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Leaflet for Thursday

[Simon Ward]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 07:32:33AM +0100, Simon Ward wrote:
> I’ve changed this to say “Digital Restrictions Management (DRM)”.
> Without modifying any other wording, this makes the paragraph a line
> taller, so I also adjusted the spacing between the paragraphs.
> 
> I have also changed “Free Software” to “free software”.  I’m aware that
> opinions differ on this, but capitalising it makes it come across as a
> marketing term.  The words should be considered to take their normal
> meanings (in context) in the language, and not any special jargon.  This
> goes even more so for other languages where you should avoid simply
> copying the term “free software”[1]:
> 
>     Also, if you use other languages than English, please try to avoid
>     borrowing English terms such as "free software" or "freeware." It is
>     better to translate the term "free software" into your language.
> 
> Results in the same place as before[2].
> 
> [1]: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/words-to-avoid.html#Freeware
> [2]: http://bleah.co.uk/~simon/manchester-free-software/

If there are no objections, I have permission to print these at work
(had to ask after printing the FSF flyers as well).  Another twenty
pages, with four to a sheet makes eighty leaflets.

Simon
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