-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Daniel James wrote: > Hi Fred, > >> the question is : i'm not english man and would like to ask : "what is >> FLOSS" ? > > It's just an acronym for 'Free, Libre and Open Source Software'. I don't > like acronyms much, I prefer the term 'Free Software'. > I would normally agree. In this neck of the woods however, there is a great deal of confusion regarding the word free. Here in North America it seems to be tied too closely to the meaning "no cost", when what we are referring to is "freedom". At least libre gets a blank stare followed by a question, whereas when people hear the word free, they don't really hear anything after it.
The acronym is because I am a lazy typist. I used to have a script for this sort of thing when I used pine and vim... another victim of progress :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJL8wswRXgH3rKGfMRAq+9AJ9QZp+kBGufofzaEGz23HkZoquiZQCgjmDa ynx/PURceEBVMSfwwIwCK7o= =yX+Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
