Comments on: Samba’s lead developer Jeremy Allison resigns from Novell in protest, joins Google.

By: Vox

Vox — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:32:10 +0000

FLOSS = Free/Libre/Open Source Software.
It’s just the easiest way to cover all the names people know that kind of software by :)

By: Rich G.

Rich G. — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 15:36:18 +0000

Just now bothered to look up FLOSS.
It’s the way they roll “Free” up into one acronym, instead of saying “Free like free beer and free speech” if I understand it correctly.
How did we ever get by without wikipedia? Seriously? We’d have to ask each other on usenet. I blame the rise of the wiki with the fall of ART and AGD. We no longer needed each other. ;)

By: Vox

Vox — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 03:55:23 +0000

Of course he would…he is, after all, one of the people who made YaST a proprietary piece of software running on linux, making SuSE a non-Free (as in Freedom) distro for most of its life.

On the other hand, Jeremy is a FLOSS proponent to the bone…and there are others inside Novell that I’m pretty sure are gonna start running from the sinking ship.

By: Rich G.

Rich G. — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 03:30:16 +0000

and another returns (via /. )
http://www.datamanager.it/articoli.php?idricercato=17639

“Hubert Mantel: ‘I’m back at Novell’.”