[Gllug] FLOSS

Andrew Halliwell ah at gnd.com
Wed Nov 5 10:26:51 UTC 2003


And verily, didst Mark Preston announce to the hordes:
> 
> Bruce Richardson writes:-
> < I wish to register a protest against the term FLOSS. It's the daftest
> < acronym yet. Nobody is going to take anything seriously if you call it
> < FLOSS.
> Hi Bruce,
> I thought that being daft was more or less de rigueur when it comes to 
> producing free software acronyms. How else do you remain serious when 
> explaining names that derive from amongst others a Red Indian, a garden 
> ornament, a dog, a wildebeest, a Brazilian dance, a comedy series and a 
> duck?

You forgot the rubber bondage slave.

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