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Re: [ox-en] Book project



On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, MJ Ray wrote:

I thought FLOSS was just an EU-funded research project?  Or are you using
that rather cumbersome term as a politically correct term for the Free
Software groups?

  It may seem cumbersome to those 'already in the know', but in North
America the term 'Free' in 'Free Software' is misinterpreted so often that
saying Free/Libre and Open Source Software is much less cumbersome than
just saying 'Free Software'.

  http://www.flora.ca/floss.shtml

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