[Gllug] FLOSS

[Mark Preston]

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?
What's wrong with a piece of thread tying them all together?
Anyway, I distinctly remember in 2001 a dentist telling me that 
dentistry is at the cutting edge of many IT developments - I remember 
because it was just after he informed me that he'd never heard of Linux. 
This dental slant to computing terms has of course been true for many 
years, how else do you explain what half a byte is?
Regards,
Mark




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