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[Jonathan Bryant]

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

--Jonathan Bryant

Re: [Caml-list] Slashdot

[David Teller]

By opposition to the headline, it's not the government, just the SACEM
(French RIAA) screaming bloody murder, as usual.

Cheers,
 David

Le vendredi 02 décembre 2005 à 17:24 -0500, Jonathan Bryant a écrit :
> 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
> 
> --Jonathan Bryant

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Re: [Caml-list] Slashdot

[Jacques Garrigue]

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

Re: [Caml-list] Slashdot

[Jonathan Bryant]

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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