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Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is a comprehensive term encompassing both the Free Software and the Open Source Software movements. There are so many different terms for free software that Wikipedia provides a whole article just on the subject of <br> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_terms_for_free_software Alternative terms for free software]. The alternative terms include: *[[Free Software]] *[[Freeware]] *[[Shareware]] *[[Open Source Software]] There are also several alternative terms that try to group both [[Free Software]] and [[Open Source Software]], including: *Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) *Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) *Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) See the [[FOSS Narrative]] for an introduction to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). ==Links== *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_movement *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software [[Category:FOSS]]
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