Posted on Monday, April 25, 2005 10:43 AM
I came accross this announcement at the net-time mailing list:
- FLOSS is not just good for teeth / Free, Libre and Open Source
Explained (finally) in Simple English!
"Why do they call it 'FLOSS' when it doesn't clean your teeth?"
Are you a non-nerd, a human being who happens to use computers without
living inside them? Does that make you curious to find out what the buzz
regarding open source and free software is all about? What's in it for
you? Does it work? Is it fun and easy to use? How is it made and who
makes it? And how 'free' or 'open' is it, really? Have you looked long
and hard for answers to questions like these in plain English? If that's
the case, 'FLOSS is not just good for teeth' could be just what you are
looking for.
Impress your techie buddies with the fact that you care for your kernel,
and open yourself to a whole new world of concepts that offer
challenging and exciting ideas about creativity, collaboration and
coding. 'Floss' geeks, make yourselves understood to other human beings
- download and distribute 'FLOSS is not just good for teeth' to friends,
family and colleagues, so they can finally know and appreciate what
keeps you awake while they sleep.
'FLOSS is not just good for teeth' is a collaboratively produced
introduction to the concepts that underlie free and open source
software, written specially for the non-technical reader, at the Sarai
Programme (www.sarai.net) of the Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies, Delhi.
Visit http://www.sarai.net/floss_book.pdf
for free downloads