Overview: Rewrite

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Wed Oct 17 15:11:11 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 14:05 +0630, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 10:51 +0630, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview page needs a rewrite. Does any of 
> >> the word smiths here help out with that?
> >>
> >> Details at
> >>
> >> http://marc.info/?l=fedora-marketing-list&m=118136110006398&w=2
> > 
> > I only had time to make trivial changes tonight -- please keep in mind
> > that the word "free" is not capitalized in these use cases.
> 
> How do you differentiate between Free as in freedom vs free as in gratis?

You could use "free/libre" for example.  But capitalizing the word isn't
the right way to do this in English; instead it implies the use of a
brand name, trademark, or other proper name, which I'm sure isn't the
meaning for which you're looking.

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