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RE: Fwd: sed porting trouble
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Schmitz, Joachim |
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RE: Fwd: sed porting trouble |
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Mon, 4 Oct 2010 04:53:08 +0000 |
Hi Bruno
FLOSS is actually supposed to mean 'Freeware Look for Open System Services" and
is used for 2 things, a) the floss package itself, which is sort of an enabler,
containing scripts, header files and a library that is supposed to ease the
porting effort and b) all the stuff that has been ported using this
infrastructure, currently some 270 different packages (see
http://ituglib.connect-community.org/apps/Ituglib/HomePage.jsf, ITUG means
International Tandem Users Group, the predecessor of Connect Community, Lib is
it's LIBrary)
Bye, Jojo
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruno Haible [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2010 11:47 PM
To: address@hidden
Cc: Karl Berry; Schmitz, Joachim
Subject: Re: Fwd: sed porting trouble
Karl Berry wrote:
> Ah, OK, thanks for digging that up. As I mentioned OSS came into
> existence in the early 1990s.
>
> Off the subject of these endless pragma issues, but I feel compelled to
> point out for the record that rms started GNU in 1983
> (http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-history.html).
>
> Granted GNU is not part of "open source" ...
In the context of HP NonStop systems, "OSS" stands for "Open System Services".
See any of the manuals that Joachim pointed to:
http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02492445/c02492445.pdf
http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02128649/c02128649.pdf
http://bizsupport2.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02128680/c02128680.pdf
But when someone creates a library called 'libfloss', and it means something
different than "Free/Libre Open Source Software", I get the feeling that the
confusion (or pun) is intended.
Bruno
- RE: libfloss on HP NonStop, (continued)
- RE: libfloss on HP NonStop, Schmitz, Joachim, 2010/10/04
- RE: Fwd: sed porting trouble, Schmitz, Joachim, 2010/10/02
- Re: Fwd: sed porting trouble, Bruno Haible, 2010/10/02
- RE: Fwd: sed porting trouble, Schmitz, Joachim, 2010/10/02
- Re: Fwd: sed porting trouble, Bruno Haible, 2010/10/02
- RE: Fwd: sed porting trouble, Schmitz, Joachim, 2010/10/02
- Re: Fwd: sed porting trouble, Bruno Haible, 2010/10/02
- RE: Fwd: sed porting trouble, Schmitz, Joachim, 2010/10/03
- RE: Fwd: sed porting trouble, Karl Berry, 2010/10/03
- Re: Fwd: sed porting trouble, Bruno Haible, 2010/10/03
- RE: Fwd: sed porting trouble,
Schmitz, Joachim <=
- RE: Fwd: sed porting trouble, Schmitz, Joachim, 2010/10/04
- Re: Fwd: sed porting trouble, Bruno Haible, 2010/10/02
- RE: Fwd: sed porting trouble, Schmitz, Joachim, 2010/10/03
- Re: Fwd: sed porting trouble, Bruno Haible, 2010/10/03
- RE: Fwd: sed porting trouble, Schmitz, Joachim, 2010/10/03
RE: Fwd: sed porting trouble, Schmitz, Joachim, 2010/10/01