Ruben Leote Mendes wrote:
As a native portuguese speaker your translation looks excellent to me!
I would also like to add that in the same parliamentary discussion another proposal from the same party, which proposed that Portugal reverse it's (favorable) position about software patents, was refused.The transcription of the full debate is available (in portuguese) in PDF:
http://www3.parlamento.pt/dari/DARIDoc.aspx?Doc=aHR0cDovL0lOVFJBU1JWL2FybmV0...
Thank you!
The attitude of the right in the debate seems to be: the position in favour of software patents will be kept because it is important; the motion on free software will be allowed to pass because it is relatively trivial and only confirms what is happening in practice anyway (unlike the previous free software motion from the BE (Left Block)). Whether this is true or not, I don't know.
I have put a copy of the translation on a wiki at
http://open.egov.org.uk/index.php/Portuguese_resolution
This is a mediawiki site with a 'discussion' page corresponding to each content page. If anyone is capable of adding any kind of commentary to the translation that would be great (if it's in Portuguese I could translate it to English).
Best Graham
Regards, RĂºben
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:10:12PM +0100, Graham Seaman wrote:
Hi,
The Portuguese parliament (Assembleia da Republica) recently passed an advisory motion on free software (proposed by the Communist Party, but with cross party support). You can find the original at http://www.pcp.pt/ar/legis-9/projres/pjr255.htm. There is some (portuguese language) discussion of the resolution, together with the text of supporting speeches by other deputies in the ANSOL free software list http://listas.ansol.org/pipermai/ansol-geral/2004-September/
I haven't seen anything about this in any language other than Portuguese, so I thought I would translate it. The translation below is completely unofficial; I hope it's of some interest for the list, but you might want to get it verified by a native Portuguese speaker before using it for anything..
Best Graham
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