[Gllug] NHS software projects

Tue Nov 4 15:07:03 UTC 2003

Bruce Richardson <itsbruce at uklinux.net> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 07:10:13AM +0000, Mark wrote:
>> There are a number of more general serious FLOSS based healthcare 
>> projects in development.
>
> 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.

Except the EU, who appear to be happy with the term.

Well, at least it means they stand a chance of getting the bit in their
teeth and running with it...

cheers, Rich.

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