RE: Fwd: sed porting trouble

[Schmitz, Joachim]

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