I'm not the one who created this community, but I highly suspect that this community was named after the r/opensource sub on Reddit, like many other communites here. r/opensource has (or had) 200k users whereas r/foss only had 8k users, so I guess it was a natural choice to pick the more popular sub out of the two.
this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2023
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I don't have a definitive answer to your first question, but why would we want to limit a sub to FOSS-only discussion? It's a more restrictive designation. By calling the sub "open source" we're keeping it open to software that isn't technically FOSS.
I think a lot of people here actually mean foss when they say open source. Calling it foss might impart the right message and the importance of libre software to new folks. I am little conflicted about non-libre open source software as might be evident by now, maybe my bias is unjustified.
Yeah the distinction is pretty small, and usually people are just talking about FOSS software....but I'd rather avoid the semantics so just calling the community "open source" makes sense to me.
Incorporate? Meh. People just can discuss all types of open source software here, not only free of charge, fully libre, etc..
Opensource is a more used term compared to foss. So popularity wise it was chosen is my guess.
Wait until you see what the GNU/Linux sublemmy (lem?) is called.
It is called community.
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