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

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I'm arguing right now with a user who things that the developer of rsync should either change how they write code or hand over their project to someone that meets their personal standards for how software should be written.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago

The entitlement is strong in that one!

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Have you mentioned yet that anyone can do that second one by making their own fork? And that no one is required to give a fuck about how they think it should be done?

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Yes! They don't believe forking is good enough because his version of rsync is mainline. That's why he thinks the rsync developer needs to give up his project to someone else.

https://feddit.online/comment/8502390

[–] Jaycifer@piefed.social 5 points 16 hours ago

It's so nice of her to open her mouth that much so the cat and get to work with the floss he's been maintaining!

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

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

it would make sense

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

That sounds fabulous. 💅

I vote that we adopt this immediately.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 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 23 hours ago (1 children)

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 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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 19 hours ago

Free as in beer.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Free Open Source Software.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] nbsp@programming.dev 18 points 1 day ago
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 20 hours ago

How do I shot web?

[–] kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 20 hours ago
[–] luciole@beehaw.org 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just a heads up you forgot a word between "you" and "me" I think

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

What are you seeing. This is what I'm seeing

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

it seems not to have federated to dbzer0

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting. Maybe a new bug? @UlrikHD@programming.dev is one of our admins. Maybe they can look into it. Dunno who the admin is of dbzer0. Maybe you could ping them.

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com is the admin of dbzer0

db0 this ping is about a federation issue, an edit is not federating from programming.dev

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago

Not much I can do really here. If I can see later replies but not the edit, it must have been lost somewhere in the federation. Typically that means the source instance didn't send it or gave up, but normally lemmy should continue retrying

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 14 hours ago

Thanks for pinging them.

ohh, now i get it.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 2 points 22 hours ago

Is this libre open source software?