geert on Sat, 14 Aug 2004 05:35:31 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> A 'licensing fee' for GNU/Linux? |
On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 18:49, Michael H Goldhaber wrote: > A stupid question: what is FOSS? FSF? OSI? FOSS = Free Open Source Source also known as FLOSS where the L stands for Libre (this because of ambivalent qualities of English language related to 'free'). FSF = Free Software Foundation. There are actually more one them: http://www.fsfeurope.org (Europe) http://fsf.org.in/ (India) http://www.fsf.ca/ (Canada) http://www.gnu.org (USA) OSI = Open Society Institute, HQ of Soros Foundations and a variety of programs in New York. http://www.osi.org Geert # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net