For once I’ll advocate that our community uses rather the “european” word FLOSS than anything else used around.
- OS is for me rather Operating System (and thus confusing)
- OSS is rather Operating System Support for Telco providers, and also a french spy as well
- FOSS is the name of a company: http://www.foss.com/ so my willingness to fight with trademark related stuff is weak here !
So remains FLOSS: Free/Libre Open Source Software/Solutions. Maybe longer but much less ambiguous. And contains clearly the notion of liberty we’re all attached to.
2011/08/22 at 07:41 |
[...] from a FLOSS perspective, putting $10 billion in a software company when the rise of Open Source is everywhere [...]
2011/08/22 at 07:43 |
[...] from a FLOSS perspective, putting $10 billion in a software company when the rise of Open Source is everywhere [...]
2012/04/04 at 14:30 |
[...] 2012, votez FLOSS ! Share this:LinkedInFacebookEmailPrintLike this:LikeBe the first to like this [...]
2012/11/03 at 01:04 |
[...] been in disagreement with some of my friends in France around the terminology of FLOSS “editors”. I don’t like that name “editor” as it doesn’t [...]
2013/01/30 at 14:30 |
[...] get me wrong, I’m always favouring open format, and free, libre, open source software. But I’m also practical, and if I need to use a software to have my work done which is not [...]
2013/04/25 at 18:31 |
[...] it has allowed our industry to flourish and develop itself in an incomparable way. And of course, FLOSS has been a clear accelerator of the Internet [...]