[conspire] What's wrong with "FLOSS" (was: Penguin Day - Demysitify FLOSS for Nonprofits)

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Sun Apr 17 20:08:00 PDT 2005


Quoting Ross Bernheim (rossbernheim at speakeasy.net):

> How about calling it liberation software? Or Liberated Software?

It's been tried, oddly enough.  

The former generates mental images of brave French Resistance fighters
and couriers -- or just some very puzzled expressions.  The latter comes
across as a reference to shoplifting.





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