FLOSS

See also: floss, Floss, and Floß

English

Noun

FLOSS (uncountable)

1. (computing) Abbreviation of free/libre/open source software.

   Coordinate terms: FOSS, OSS

   • 2019, Brian Fitzgerald, Audris Mockus, Minghui Zhou, Towards Engineering Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) Ecosystems for Impact and Sustainability, Springer, →ISBN, page 121:

     FLOSS has proven to be an extremely valuable tool for accelerating research in various fields of IT and engineering in order to address the needs of society in the future.

Further reading

• free and open-source software on Wikipedia.Wikipedia