View source for Free and Open Source Software

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is a comprehensive term encompassing both the Free Software and the Open Source Software movements.

There are so many different terms for free software that Wikipedia provides a whole article just on the subject of <br>
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_terms_for_free_software Alternative terms for free software]. The alternative terms include:

*[[Free Software]]
*[[Freeware]]
*[[Shareware]]
*[[Open Source Software]]

There are also several alternative terms that try to group both [[Free Software]] and [[Open Source Software]], including:

*Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
*Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS)
*Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS)

See the [[FOSS Narrative]] for an introduction to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).

==Links==
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_movement
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software

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