Despite what my desk looks like this morning, I am generally a very tidy and organized person. I have folders everywhere, physical and logical, and I'm fairly fastidious about where I file my stuff.

That's why I hate it when people use incorrect terminology to describe things. I know we all do it; I've done it myself in situations where the line is not distinct, but in anything that I've written of article length or greater (I'll excuse blogs), I like to get things right.

The problem in the free and open source community people frequently use the wrong term.

So I was interested to see this post by Eric Boutilier on the new FOSS.IN Conference. In short, the story behind the post that they have changed the name of an open source conference in India, and then then mis-represented what Linux and FOSS is with some of the website descriptions. Including the classic that Eric mentions: