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List:       freebsd-advocacy
Subject:    Re: advocacy papers in french
From:       Mike Jeays <mike.jeays () rogers ! com>
Date:       2007-06-13 15:08:28
Message-ID: 200706131108.28939.mike.jeays () rogers ! com
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On Wednesday 13 June 2007 09:03, Rodrigo OSORIO (ros) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not trying to start a troll in this mailing list,
> so please consider this mail gently.
>
> With some friends we are actually translating some documents
> about FreeBSD in French, and we have a question about the freeBSD
> logo "The power to serve".
>
> In main documents, is a word by word translation "le pouvoir de servir".
> I'm not really happy about that because if we translate it in English
> again (thanks google) it means "The capacity to be useful".
>
> As I understand this logo purpose is to say, FreeBSD gives you the power
> ("puissance" in French) to serve your needs.
>
> In this point of view "La puissance à votre service" is a more convenient
> logo.
>
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I think your alternative does a much better job of conveying the idea behind 
the logo.  Good luck with the very welcome translation work.

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Mike Jeays
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