[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, at 8:23am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Heavily reviewed OSS (note not necessarily FOSS)?
>
> FOSS == (Free|Open Source) Software
>
> They are the same thing. "Open Source Software" was the term popularized
> by Eric Raymond as an alternative to the term "Free Software". It was and
> is a common confusion to think that "Free Software" means "without charge",
> when it really means "with certain freedoms" (namely, to look at, modify,
> and/or redistribute the source code).
It seems to me that what FOSS denotes and what it commonly
connotes are two different things.
Bill
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