Fedora names not to be translated

[Ding Yi Chen]

----- Original Message -----
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 08:52:51PM +0530, Rajesh Ranjan wrote:
> > Right! In new context, I also think that there is no valid reason for not
> > translating (means transliterating) brand names, but discussion should
> > happen, and good that it is happening. If we consider a brand as a proper
> > noun and just transliterating it, then what is the problem?
> 
> Hi everyone. This is a recommendation from Fedora Legal, not just
> something I'm arbitrarily made up. It helps protect the brand globally.
> 
> Also, I'm not quite convinced that this request is out of line with
> normal practice. Not that this is a company we need to emulate, but on
> <http://www.microsoft.com/zh-cn/default.aspx>, I see "Office",
> "Surface", "Phone", "Tablet", and even "Service Pack" untranslated.
> These are all common words, and I'm sure there are plenty of other
> examples elsewhere.

Yet "Microsoft" is translated as "微软", though not very consistently.
"Bing" is translated as "必应"

On the other hand,
it is quite common to see some thing like "必应 (Bing)"

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