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by pabs3 1629 days ago
Free Software is international and borderless and made by people with a huge variety of accents. LibreOffice for example has an incredible amount of translations, more than many projects. It would be better for folks to learn to embrace these aspects of Free Software rather than splintering it along nationalistic or linguistic lines.

There is of course some inevitable splintering between the English speaking part of the FLOSS world and individual bubbles of people who don't speak English. For eg it seems like there is a large space of open source projects by people who speak Chinese but not English.

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That's fine. My point was that it would be better off with a different name in the English translation.
Project names are generally never translated.