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I contribute nothing but you owe me everything (lemmy.nz)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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The most important part of FLOSS is "F", apparently.

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[-] tabular@lemmy.world 59 points 2 months ago

Not to take away from the point but the F in FOSS stands for "Free as in freedom" and not free as in price.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 22 points 2 months ago

It's FLOSS in the image. Free Libre Open Source Software

[-] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago

i wonder, why have i never heard "GLOSS (Gratis Libre Open Source Software)" used

it would make sense

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago

That's also a nice acronym. I like it better actually.

[-] HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

The SAAS provider is BOSS

Billed Open Source Software

[-] Dojan@pawb.social 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That sounds fabulous. 💅

I vote that we adopt this immediately.

[-] grranibal@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago

Ohhhhh I didn’t know that, thank you :)

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

Though if it’s truly freedom, then it should also be free as in price. One is a superset of the other.

[-] tabular@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

You can charge for free software, for the binary and/or source code - bandwidth/storage ain't free.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Yes. But the source code should also be available at no cost, and you should be able to build it yourself right? So freedom should be a superset of free.

[-] tabular@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Being able to build it yourself is a must: otherwise you can't make/share changes (and use changes from others).

I lean towards a "pay want you want" models (including 0) as DRM is pointless. But no, I do not believe binaries or code must cost nothing for it to still be free software.

4 Essential Freedoms of Software, made by Jeison Yehuda Amihud

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago

Isn't that what the L for Libra means?

[-] tabular@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I think people say FOSS and FLOSS interchangeably and come to say FLOSS due to floss being as established word (dental floss). If you know of "libre" then that you probably know the free software vs open source distintion too and would just choose to say one.