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Re:Linus Torvalds Rants by cm2187 on Saturday March 03, 2018 @10:18AM (#16509577)
It's actually the motto of one of the main french newspapers. Sans la liberté de blâmer, il n'est pas d'éloge flatteur, i.e. something like "Where there is no freedom of blaming, there can be no genuine praise".
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Re:Linus Torvalds Rants by digi_owl on Saturday March 03, 2018 @11:24AM (#16509963)
The French really do not get enough praise these days.

Perhaps because so much of the world do not learn how to read French...

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Re:Linus Torvalds Rants by em3rgent0rdr on Saturday March 03, 2018 @12:44PM (#16510448)
The English translation of the french phrase seems fine to me. So there isn't a need to be able to learn to read French in order to express that thought, since it can be done in English. Or is the English translation missing something important?
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Re:Linus Torvalds Rants by oarsinsync on Sunday March 04, 2018 @04:42PM (#16516942)
Elegance and eloquence.

Or to put it another way, “it doesn’t really matter what you call a flower, it still smells just as good”

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