• drspod@lemmy.ml
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      Free Open Source Software. It is software that gives you the freedom to see the source code, make modifications to it, and redistribute your changed version of the software to your friends.

      FOSS software is generally developed in the open by a community of volunteers, although we are increasingly seeing FOSS projects take on funding from community donations or corporations that want to support the software’s development.

      You can read more about it on the Free Software Foundation page: https://www.fsf.org/about/

    • RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️@feddit.dk
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      FOSS is either “Free and Open Source Software” or a Danish company that makes valves and termostats and stuff like that hehe
      EDIT: Wait no, that’s Danfoss I was thinking of, but FOSS is still a Danish company except it provides “high-tech analytical solutions”, whatever that means. Idk what’s the deal with “foss” names and Denmark, it doesn’t sound very Danish to me (as a Dane).

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        I’m Danish, so when i tried searching for it, it only wanted to show me the company lol.