Problem (was: Re: need help with tool requirement)

[Bill Freeman]

bscott at ntisys.com writes:
 > On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, at 8:23am, f at ke1g.mv.com wrote:
 > > Heavily reviewed OSS (note not necessarily FOSS)?
 > 
 >   FOSS == (Free|Open Source) Software
 >   
 >   They are the same thing.  "Open Source Software" was the term popularized
 > by Eric Raymond as an alternative to the term "Free Software".  It was and
 > is a common confusion to think that "Free Software" means "without charge",
 > when it really means "with certain freedoms" (namely, to look at, modify,
 > and/or redistribute the source code).

	It seems to me that what FOSS denotes and what it commonly
connotes are two different things.

							Bill