Thursday, September 03, 2009

Facebook is trying to be evil

Facebook wants to patent the idea of crowdsourced translations for social networks. They applied for a patent in December 2008. If they were to look for existing technology, they would find that translatewiki.net has been doing exactly that for a couple of years prior to this date.

I heard the news from several sources, I liked the way Lisa brought the news in their "Globalisation Insider" best. It is well worth a read.
Thanks,
      GerardM
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Purodha Blissenbach said...

I believe, Opera was accepting localizations from volunteers 2004 or earlier. The nds Wikipedia, when I first found it, pointed to a Plattdüütsch language file for Opera, that was offered on the Opera Website and maintained not by Opera. If memory serves, that was 2005 or 2006.

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