On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Stefan Teleman wrote: > > The term had been in use much earlier than the date of a DoD report. It was > in use in the '90's.
I provided the requested reference so perhaps you can provide yours. As an avid consumer and contributor of open source since the late '80s I was not exposed to the term "FOSS" until 2004 when someone new to the community introduced it to me. > In other words, you have never attempted to actually work on this port, and > you do not know if this port is even possible, or not, given the existing > constraints. That is true but I find that few things are impossible. Sorry for butting into the conversation like this. I have ignored most of it but your posting seemed somewhat objectionable. You might want to compare the Boost license with the Apache license. I find the Boost license to be less objectionable (and much shorter) than the Apache license. Boost: http://www.boost.org/users/license.html Apache: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
