{"id":128,"date":"2005-09-28T09:34:21","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T16:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1071"},"modified":"2005-09-28T09:34:21","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T16:34:21","slug":"foss-using-the-right-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"FOSS: using the right terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>The problem in the free and open source community people frequently use the wrong term. <\/p>\n<p>So I was interested to see this post by Eric Boutilier on the new <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.com\/roller\/page\/eric_boutilier?entry=foss_in_going_beyond_the\">FOSS.IN Conference<\/a>. 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:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;m fairly fastidious about where I file my stuff. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I hate it when people use incorrect terminology to describe things. I know we all do it; I&#8217;ve done it myself in situations where the line is not distinct, but in anything that I&#8217;ve written of article length or greater (I&#8217;ll excuse blogs), I like to get things right. <\/p>\n<p>The problem in the free and open source community people frequently use the wrong term. <\/p>\n<p>So I was interested to see this post by Eric Boutilier on the new <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.com\/roller\/page\/eric_boutilier?entry=foss_in_going_beyond_the\">FOSS.IN Conference<\/a>. 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:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}