First shot fired in the Battle with the Penguin?

[Robert Brockway]

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, paul sutton wrote:

> Ahh,  actually this FOSS sounds interesting,   I think the Free Open Source 
> Software over here in the UK is refered to as FLOSS Free Libre Open Source 
> Software.   Perhaps adopting FLOSS would stop the confusion between the two, 
> or perhaps that is why FLOSS is used in this context.

Actually I think the word FLOSS has the potential for even great 
confusion[1], which is the main reason I use FOSS.  A secondary reason I 
avoid the term FLOSS (at least for now) is that libre is not an english 
word although the meaning should be easy enough to infer :)

[1] Ask most people about FLOSS and they'll admit they need to do it twice 
per day but usually don't.

Rob

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