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Matt Kettler wrote:
| I liked OSS better, but then several companies decided offering | high-dollar licenses to their code made them "open source software" and | diluted any meaning that expression had.
Actually, I believe the "Free" in FOSS was motivated by Stallman and the Free Software Foundation, which has a somewhat different definition of "free software". The FSF is referring more to freedom in terms of restrictions on redistribution and use than strictly monetary definitions. The "free software" and "open source" camps have been at each other's throats for years now, squabbling over ideological distinctions, and I think "FOSS" emerged as a generic term to describe both.
- -- Robert LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Renaissoft, Inc. Maia Mailguard <http://www.maiamailguard.com/>
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