Seth David Schoen <[email protected]> writes: > Tianay Pulphus writes: > >> What's the story behind the name? What's a foss? Is it a play on "boss"? > > It's Icelandic for "waterfall" :-รพ, but in this case it refers to free > and open source software.
I love that bit of trivia. > > Free and open source software are historically different names for the > same software, but each name is preferred by different people who have > different emphasis. I think open source partisans say there is no substantive difference, but some free software partisans can identify software that is open source but that they don't consider free.
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