I find people who agree with me for the wrong reasons to be more problematic than people who simply disagree with me. After writing a lot about why free software is important, I needed to clarify that there are good and bad reasons for supporting it.

You can audit the security of proprietary software quite thoroughly; source code isn’t a necessary or sufficient precondition for a particular software implementation to be considered secure.

  • @Korba@lemmy.ml
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    02 years ago

    what FLOSS stands for ? i mean i know what’s FOSS but this my first time hearing about FLOSS

    • Jama
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      22 years ago

      Free Libre Open Source Software, since the word “free” is often misunderstood

    • SeirdyOP
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      02 years ago

      You’re not the first person to ask, which is why I updated the post to expand the acronym in the first sentence. Diff.