FOSS was the original. Free and Open Source Software. But, English being English, “free” was too ambiguous (free as in gratis vs. unrestricted), so the French came to the rescue with the much superior word “libre”. That’s how F/LOSS (Free/Libre) was coined.
isn’t it FLOSS? Free libre open source?
FOSS was the original. Free and Open Source Software. But, English being English, “free” was too ambiguous (free as in gratis vs. unrestricted), so the French came to the rescue with the much superior word “libre”. That’s how F/LOSS (Free/Libre) was coined.