Re: Translation of program names

[Kenneth Rohde Christiansen <kenneth gnu org>]

Big companies does indeed translitterate their names

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Kenneth


On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 14:00, Danilo Segan wrote:
> Дана петак, 31. октобар 2003. 13:17:44 CET, Christian Rose написа:
> > 
> > Not only that, but some of our most active contributors *are* these
> > companies. Well, each contributing individual is an individual from
> > the GNOME point of view, but you get the idea. We should not bite the  
> > hand that feeds us... well, perhaps that's making it too drastic, but  
> > we shouldn't annoy them or misrepresent them. We should help them  
> > help us.
> 
> My point is just that we shouldn't do it at the cost of our own  
> language. So, lets not put their marketing above that. :-)
> 
> And I never heard a single complaint of IBM being named "ИБМ" in here,  
> or "Microsoft" being transliterated to "Микрософт". So, I don't think  
> they mind too much, as long as you use the products of those companies,  
> and pay for them :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Danilo
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