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Free Software Foundation Europe on Microsoft fines

Free Software Foundation Europe on Microsoft fines

Posted Jul 13, 2006 11:58 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
In reply to: Free Software Foundation Europe on Microsoft fines by nix
Parent article: Free Software Foundation Europe on Microsoft fines

> You probably meant 'cease to legitimise', and even then the sentence is
> clumsy: it's ambiguous as to whether buyigng from companies constitutes
> refusal or not, and my first parse was that it would (oops, wrong).

I guess you meant "buying" ;-p

Just kidding. Thanks for pointing out the mistakes, I'll pass them on. The PR process usually catches these things, but sometimes people are very busy, and sometimes the native English speakers are stuck in meetings etc. while deadlines are approaching.


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Free Software Foundation Europe on Microsoft fines

Posted Jul 15, 2006 10:13 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

There is no grammar flame that does not have a grammatical error.

Thus is the balance kept. :)

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