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• free software n. As defined by Richard M. Stallman and used by the Free Software movement, this means software that gives users enough freedom to be used by the free software community.
  Specifically, users must be free to modify the software for their private use, and free to redistribute it either with or without modifications, either commercially or noncommercially, either gratis or charging a distribution fee....
• Open Source Beer Revolution Yesterday, Red Hat introduced an 'open source' beer called Red Brew.
  The recipes for making the beer are available for free over the Net, and microbrewery kits are available at low cost from Red Hat....
• Brief History Of Linux (#29) "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" is credited by many (especially ESR himself) as the reason Netscape announced January 22, 1998 the release of the Mozilla source code.
  In addition, Rob Malda of Slashdot has also received praise because he had recently published an editorial ("Give us the damn source code so we can fix Netscape's problems ourselves!...
• OSS Written-only acronym for "Open Source Software" (see open source.
  This is a rather ugly TLA, and the principals in the open-source movement don't use it, but it has (perhaps inevitably) spread through the trade press like kudzu....
• open source n. [common; also adj. `open-source'] Term coined in March 1998 following the Mozilla release to describe software distributed in source under licenses guaranteeing anybody rights to freely use
  modify, and redistribute, the code. The intent was to be able to sell the hackers' ways of doing software to industry and the mainstream by avoid the negative connotations (to suits) of the term "free software"....
• New Linux Companies Hope To Get Rich Quick (#3) In the "Cathedral and the Bazaar", ESR mentions that one motivation behind Open Source software is ego-gratification.
  That's where OpenEgo, Inc. comes in. For a fee, the hackers at OpenEgo will produce a piece of Open Source software and distribute it in your name, thus building up your reputation and ego....
• Commenting in Slashdot after Arnold Schwarzenegger's decision to use open-source software in the California governme
  > This is obviously because Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are girly-men....
• gnubie /noo'bee/ n. Written-only variant of newbie in common use on IRC channels, which implies specifically someone who is new to the Linux/open source/free software world.
• proprietary adj. 1. In marketroid-speak, superio
  implies a product imbued with exclusive magic by the unmatched brilliance of the company's own hardware or software designers....