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Alternative terms for free software, such as open source, FOSS, and FLOSS, have been a controversial issue among free software users from the late 1990s onwards. Coined in 1983 by Richard Stallman, "free software" is used to describe software which can be used, modified, and redistributed with little or no restriction. These freedoms are formally described in The Free Software Definition, first published in February 1986. Alternatives for "free software" were sought for marketing purposes and because of a perceived "moralising and confrontational" attitude that had been associated with the term.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History of OSI )〕 In addition, the "available at no cost" ambiguity of the word "free" was seen as discouraging business adoption.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Goodbye, "free software"; hello, "open source" )〕 In a 1998 strategy session in California, "open source software" was selected by Todd Anderson, Larry Augustin, Jon Hall, Sam Ockman, Christine Peterson, and Eric S. Raymond. Richard Stallman had not been invited.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Saint of Free Software (page 2) )〕 The session was arranged in reaction to Netscape's January 1998 announcement of a source code release for Navigator (as Mozilla). Those at the meeting described "open source" as a "replacement label" for free software,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Goodbye, "free software"; hello, "open source" )〕 and the Open Source Initiative was soon-after founded by Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens to promote the term as part of "a marketing program for free software". Stallman and others object to the term "open source software" because it does not make people think of the freedom that the software in question gives users, or guarantee it (a minority of open source software is released under a non-liberal license). Each of the terms "free software" and "open-source software" has fans and critics. Partly because of the failure to adopt one specific term, other terms have been proposed. These include "software libre" (or libre software), "FLOSS" (free/libre and open-source software), and "FOSS" (or F/OSS, free and open-source software). These terms share almost identical licence criteria and development practices. == FOSS and F/OSS == (詳細はUsenet was in a posting on 18 March 1998, just a month after the term "open source" itself was coined. In February 2002, "F/OSS" appeared on a Usenet newsgroup dedicated to Amiga video games. In early 2002, MITRE used the term "FOSS" in what would later be their 2003 report ''Use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense.'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「alternative terms for free software」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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