From: Jonathan Bryant <jtbryant@valdosta.edu>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Slashdot
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 22:11:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1133579470.5414.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051203.082420.03116477.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
This is exactly why I asked. Thanks for the info.
--Jonathan
On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 08:24 +0900, Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> From: Jonathan Bryant <jtbryant@valdosta.edu>
>
> > Saw this article on Slashdot. OCaml is French and open source: should
> > we be worried?
> >
> > http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/02/2040237&tid=123&tid=185&tid=219&tid=106
>
> Classical slashdot(?): this is just a misquote, as the department of
> culture hasn't done more than to host a press conference by
> SACEM, SNEP and SCPP, which are the equivalents of RIAA and MPAA.
> The original (translated) sentence is
>
> Friday November 18th, 2005, French Department of Culture. SNEP and
> SCPP have told Free Software authors: ...
>
> And slashdot replaced the full stop after Culture by a comma, implying
> that the department of culture was saying that, whereas this only
> denotes a location (the original French version uses "au".)
>
> Jacques Garrigue
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-02 22:24 Slashdot Jonathan Bryant
2005-12-02 21:51 ` [Caml-list] Slashdot David Teller
2005-12-02 23:24 ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-12-03 3:11 ` Jonathan Bryant [this message]
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