software hoarding n.
Pejorative term employed by members and
adherents of the GNU project to describe the act of holding
software proprietary, keeping it under trade secret or license
terms which prohibit free redistribution and modification. Used
primarily in Free Software Foundation propaganda. For a summary
of related issues, see GNU.
Pejorative term employed by members and
adherents of the GNU project to describe the act of holding
software proprietary, keeping it under trade secret or license
terms which prohibit free redistribution and modification. Used
primarily in Free Software Foundation propaganda. For a summary
of related issues, see GNU.
Related:
- General Public Virus n.
Pejorative name for some
versions of the GNU project copyleft or General Public
License (GPL),
which requires that any tools or apps incorporating... - General Public Virus: n. Pejorative name for some versions of the
{GNU} project {copyleft} or General Public License (GPL),
which requires that any tools or {app}s incorporating... - GNU /gnoo/, not /noo/
1. [acronym: `GNU's Not
Unix!',
see recursive acronym] A Unix-workalike development... - GNU: /gnoo/, *not* /noo/ 1. [acronym: `GNU's Not UNIX!',
see {{recursive acronym}}] A UNIX-workalike development... - free software n.
As defined by Richard M. Stallman and
used by the Free Software movement,
this means software that gives users enough freedom... - copyleft /kop'ee-left/ n.
[play on `copyright'] 1.
The copyright notice (`General Public License')... - FSF /F-S-F/ abbrev.
Common abbreviation (both spoken and
written) for the name of the Free Software Foundation,
a nonprofit educational association formed to support... - hoarding n.
See software hoarding... - Linux /lee'nuhks/ or /li'nuks/, not /li:'nuhks/
n.
The free Unix workalike created by Linus Torvalds and...
From the same category:
- GIGO /gi:'goh/ [acronym]
1. `Garbage In, Garbage Out' -
usually said in response to lusers who complain that... - Winchester n.
Informal generic term for
sealed-enclosure magnetic-disk drives in which the read-write head
planes over the disk surface on an air cushion.
There is a legend that the... - eighty-column mind n.
[IBM] The sort said to be possessed by
persons for whom the transition from punched card to tape was
traumatic (nobody has dared tell them about disks yet).
It is said... - MS-DOS /M-S-dos/ n.
[MicroSoft Disk Operating System] A
clone of CP/M for the 8088 crufted together in 6 weeks by
hacker Tim Paterson at Seattle Computer Products,
who called the ... - filk /filk/ n.,v.
[from SF fandom, where a typo for
`folk' was adopted as a new word] A popular or folk song with
lyrics revised or completely new lyrics and/or music,
intended for ...
