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2005 May 19
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Re: [OT] FOSS or Freedomware? -- WAS: pronunciation/Red Hat
...now the new, official acronym is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).
But even before that acronym was popular, I had long argued that
Stallman's insistence on calling it "Free Software" when that could
be confused with "Freeware" or, worse yet, "Shareware" was a
disseervice. I liken that problem to people who like to use the
term "Hacker" in general, even though the original term was used
to designate someone of creative or other technical skill.
"Open Source" doesn't dictate that the source code is free of IP
either. And the whole term &quo...