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I contribute nothing but you owe me everything (programming.dev)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 52 points 1 day 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 20 points 1 day ago

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

[-] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 19 hours ago

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

it would make sense

[-] Dojan@pawb.social 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

That sounds fabulous. 💅

I vote that we adopt this immediately.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 18 hours ago

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

[-] HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago

The SAAS provider is BOSS

Billed Open Source Software

[-] grranibal@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago

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

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day 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 7 points 21 hours ago

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

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 0 points 21 hours 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 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours 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

[-] prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 points 20 hours ago

Free as in beer.

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

Free Open Source Software.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 23 hours ago

Isn't that what the L for Libra means?

[-] tabular@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours 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.