Once again, Umas, you set up a straw man and demolish him! FOSS means "Free and Open Source Software". It doesn't necessarily refer to software created by some pure amateur in his garage. As long as the creator (commercial firm, university or private individual) releases the source at no cost, it is FOSS.
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Urmas <[email protected]> wrote: > "Peter West": > > Non-FOSS (BSD-licensed software): > > Mac OS X (based on BSD and the Mach kernel) > Linux > gcc > > Developed by commercial companies: > Android (based on Linux) > apache > Firefox > OpenJDK > saxon > LibreOffice > > So far FOSS 'community' created nothing successful. Everything was > designed and implemented by real software developers or universities. > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
