First shot fired in the Battle with the Penguin?

[Paul Sutton]

Merry Xmas to everyone,  yep i got a mp3 player, very small, compact, 
and reads sd cards, It also has internal memory, which means windows 
displays two drives,  this did confuse me a little, however.   Also 
seems to have text reader so good for reading linux how to files, when 
offline, 

Anyway,  I think your right regarding the confusion over FLOSS / FOSS. 

Chat later

paul

Robert Brockway wrote:

> 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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