[Freedombox-discuss] Fwd: Translating expressions...

[Nicolás Reynolds]

El 24/05/11 03:31, James Vasile dijo:
> On Tue, 24 May 2011 16:05:04 -0300, Nicolás Reynolds <fauno at kiwwwi.com.ar> wrote:
> > > First of all is the use of "Free World"[0] to refer to a certain sector of
> > > the world. As the Wikipedia reference says, it was coined during the Cold
> > > War to refer to US and other non-communist countries. In case you don't
> > > know, during those times the US government and it's agencies[1] not only
> > > promoted unfreedomness in Latin America and other countries, but also
> > > supported and trained dictatorships that tortured and murderer people por
> > > political reasons (Argentina, for instance, has 30.000 missing persons and
> > > 500 kids that were illegally adopted by military officers, but only 100 of
> > > which were returned to their families during the past 26 years). So "Free
> > > World" actually doesn't mean anything like it to us.
> 
> When Eben speaks of the "Free World", I take him to mean "the community
> of people who so love freedom that they love free software and the
> culture of sharing".

I'll translate it as Free Software World then...

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