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Re: more press



On 16 Mar 1999 jfm2@club-internet.fr wrote:

> > From: Roger Dingledine <arma@mit.edu>
> > Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:36:29 -0500 (EST)
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> > Sender: owner-independence-l@independence.seul.org
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> > http://www.linuxcare.com/forums/index.html/9a08c7f3fdcd4879
> > 
> > A Declaration of . . . : Word of a new distribution appeared
> >     Sunday on linux.announce. Named "Independence," the
> >     distribution is intended to "bring Linux to the masses" with
> >     features appropriate for newbies who want to run Linux on a
> >     standalone workstation. The Project Independence effort may be
> >     found at http://www.independence.seul.org. The development
> >     team appears to be French, which may explain this wonderful
> >     example of Franglish in the press release: "Independence is based
> >     on RedHat 5.2 with all the errata applied and with stuff of our
> >     own." 
> > 
> > 
> 
> What was supposed to be correct English?  I also wonder how good he
> would have beeen at writing texts in French or Spanish.  

It looks correct to me, but that means little.
Maybe he doesn't know the meaning of errata ;-)

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