anyone who says "FLOSS" is either perpetrating doublespeak, or a victim of it, because "Free/Libre Software" and "Open Source Software" are different things
They are different things - though mostly in terms of goals and priorities, since the actual definitions are very similar - but I disagree that doublespeak is required to use that term.
"FLOSS", at least the way I've used and understood it, is not intended to equate them but simply to refer to both at once. In my view, FLOSS is the union of the two sets.
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anyone who says "FLOSS" is either perpetrating doublespeak, or a victim of it, because "Free/Libre Software" and "Open Source Software" are different things
They are different things - though mostly in terms of goals and priorities, since the actual definitions are very similar - but I disagree that doublespeak is required to use that term.
"FLOSS", at least the way I've used and understood it, is not intended to equate them but simply to refer to both at once. In my view, FLOSS is the union of the two sets.