[Fedora-trans-ar] arabic-fedora.org logo

[Mohamed Eldesoky]

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On Thursday 18 November 2004 3:38 am, Munzir Taha wrote:
> On Yaum al-Arbi'a 04 Shawwal 1425 16:30, Sherif Abdelgawad wrote:
> > > It is targeting Arabic users !!
> >
> > It is a product name too !??  I tend to leave the product names as it is.
> > There is a translation of Fedora which is koba3a da2erya mesh 3aref 2ieh
> > :)
>
> I always laugh at you transliterations ;)
>
> > It is important to keep the meaning of things not only to have nice
> > arabic litters. You do not see "Toyota" on cars in the arab world wrote
> > in arabic and it is a product addressing arabs, right ?  You may say ,
> > some of the names has been written in arabic for some products, because
> > it is a Name. Yet, in our case here "Fedora" has meaning, like other
> > products which has meaning , and they stick to the english one.
> >
> > You want to say this is related to "Fedora" Logo , the original or the
> > product,
> > so you need to keep the name as the owner has the trade mark for.
>
> Sherif wants to say that legally it's illegal to transliterate. I am not a
> lawyer and copyright, trademarks, patent issues drives me mad but I tend to
> agree with him for this reason and another one which I will tell you about
> when you translate Kcalc for me (WARNING: I am trying to trap you so be
> careful ;))
umm
I am in trap :))
Well, kcalc has many appreviations, (K; calc), so like I said in my reply, we 
can't translate appreviations.
:))
We want to hear from the rest of this list subscribers.
>
> The above question is for those who wants to say فيدورا instead of Fedora
> ONLY ;)

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Mohamed Eldesoky
Systems Engineer
RedHat Certified Engineer
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