[Air-L] Help a US Corporation

[murrell at berkeley.edu]

Seems a direct mimicry of Wikipedia's methods of expansion.

> Thanks, Michael.
>
> The point here is not so much anti-imperialism or coporate
> "bashing" (business term, meaning critique).
>
> What we have here is a written prove how the religion of "free
> culture" (as promoted by evangelists such as Lessig and Ito) precisely
> works out. It is not that easy to ground one's "ideology criticism"
> with clear examples.
>
> In this is it is Facebook, as you say, taking away jobs of translators
> that they should employ while moving into overseas markets and let the
> work do by clueless users who have no idea about the larger Economy of
> the Free.
>
> Ciao, Geert
>
>
> On 22 May 2009, at 7:56 AM, Michael Baron wrote:
>
>> This is quite interesting. Facebook can surely afford hiring some
>> professional translators. The company is obviously very good at
>> keeping its operational costs down :)
>>
>> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:45 PM, geert lovink <geert at desk.nl> wrote:
>> "Hello Geert, do you speak Hrvatski? Help translate Facebook into
>> Hrvatski so that it can be used by people all over the world, in all
>> languages. Click on the Translate Facebook button to add the
>> Translations application, developed by Facebook, so that you can be
>> part of the community of translators. Yes, I wish to participate in
>> Facebook's language translation project and I agree to the
>> Additional Terms Applicable to Translate Facebook."
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