Comments on: Microsoft Attacks GNU/Linux (Pardus) in Turkey, Dumps on Students http://techrights.org/2009/04/26/microsoft-vs-pardus-turkey/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2009/04/26/microsoft-vs-pardus-turkey/comment-page-1/#comment-62470 Roy Schestowitz Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:56:34 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=9482#comment-62470 There is already <a href="http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-04-26-005-35-NW-CY-0000" rel="nofollow">a good response</a>. Speaking of space fillers, on Friday the BBC had published a piece about a woman being fired for using Facebook while on a health break. It was a pointless shot at Facebook. Another one from the BBC blamed Facebook for a boyfriend-girlfriend murder (as though only Facebook or the Internet cause such things). There is already a good response.

Speaking of space fillers, on Friday the BBC had published a piece about a woman being fired for using Facebook while on a health break. It was a pointless shot at Facebook. Another one from the BBC blamed Facebook for a boyfriend-girlfriend murder (as though only Facebook or the Internet cause such things).

]]> By: David Gerard http://techrights.org/2009/04/26/microsoft-vs-pardus-turkey/comment-page-1/#comment-62469 David Gerard Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:49:21 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=9482#comment-62469 Yeah. It's basically analyst space filler. I suspect that there's a running joke between analysts that they only use the word "micropayments" to indicate to their friends that they really were just making this one up as they went along to fill space. Yeah. It’s basically analyst space filler. I suspect that there’s a running joke between analysts that they only use the word “micropayments” to indicate to their friends that they really were just making this one up as they went along to fill space.

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2009/04/26/microsoft-vs-pardus-turkey/comment-page-1/#comment-62464 Roy Schestowitz Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:11:11 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=9482#comment-62464 Have you seen the Wikipedia scaremongering du jour (yet)? http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/04/wikipedia_at_ri.html Have you seen the Wikipedia scaremongering du jour (yet)?

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/04/wikipedia_at_ri.html

]]> By: David Gerard http://techrights.org/2009/04/26/microsoft-vs-pardus-turkey/comment-page-1/#comment-62458 David Gerard Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:57:41 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=9482#comment-62458 WIkimedia's experience is: interface translations are coming across quite well (http://translatewiki.net is the place, pushed and pushed and pushed by the inestimable Gerard Meissjen) ... content translations require a reliable volunteer translator corps to keep at all up to date, and WMF has trouble keeping this up even for really important stuff (announcements, WMF-wide policies, etc). WIkimedia’s experience is: interface translations are coming across quite well (http://translatewiki.net is the place, pushed and pushed and pushed by the inestimable Gerard Meissjen) … content translations require a reliable volunteer translator corps to keep at all up to date, and WMF has trouble keeping this up even for really important stuff (announcements, WMF-wide policies, etc).

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2009/04/26/microsoft-vs-pardus-turkey/comment-page-1/#comment-62457 Roy Schestowitz Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:55:36 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=9482#comment-62457 We're gonna get some French and Arabic translations for BN Wiki. We’re gonna get some French and Arabic translations for BN Wiki.

]]> By: David Gerard http://techrights.org/2009/04/26/microsoft-vs-pardus-turkey/comment-page-1/#comment-62454 David Gerard Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:53:47 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=9482#comment-62454 In general, tiny languages are a killer feature of open source, because the people interested in a translation can actually do one. In general, tiny languages are a killer feature of open source, because the people interested in a translation can actually do one.

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2009/04/26/microsoft-vs-pardus-turkey/comment-page-1/#comment-62453 Roy Schestowitz Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:30:01 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=9482#comment-62453 I couldn't get Turkish to work quite so well in an old version of KNode. I couldn’t get Turkish to work quite so well in an old version of KNode.

]]> By: David Gerard http://techrights.org/2009/04/26/microsoft-vs-pardus-turkey/comment-page-1/#comment-62452 David Gerard Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:23:11 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=9482#comment-62452 By the way, the Kurdish wikipedia is likely to be the first project to standardise (a) Kurdish spelling for all dialects (b) transliteration between Latin and Arabic alphabets in Kurdish. (Good machine transliteration being a way cool MediaWiki feature pioneered to convert both ways between Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, i.e. PRC and Taiwan, and further refined in Serbian to convert two spelling systems and two alphabets.) By the way, the Kurdish wikipedia is likely to be the first project to standardise (a) Kurdish spelling for all dialects (b) transliteration between Latin and Arabic alphabets in Kurdish. (Good machine transliteration being a way cool MediaWiki feature pioneered to convert both ways between Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, i.e. PRC and Taiwan, and further refined in Serbian to convert two spelling systems and two alphabets.)

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