I note that a good portion of these are commercial products, frankly I’d trust MUCH more a FOSS product than a commercial one after so damn many over the years have betrayed us all in the search for profit, if you’re gonna migrate to something you may as well go for the FOSS ones that are less in danger of enshittification (not a guarantee but far less of a chance since a fork kills all the walls around a walled garden pretty quickly), even if the FOSS product is not as polished.
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.
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).
Foss means waterfall in Norwegian from Norse fors. It doesn’t see any use in modern Danish from what I know, but there might be a link there considering that Danfoss works in fluid control equipment, pump, seal, valve manufacturing, climate & energy
True, it’s very rarely used in Danish any more. We do however say “det fosser ud/ind” regarding money/water/gas, so it is used in those specific cases. But I don’t think I’ve ever heard it elsewhere.
For personal reference and for the lazy (i think it’s complete, did it in a hurry in a break):
I note that a good portion of these are commercial products, frankly I’d trust MUCH more a FOSS product than a commercial one after so damn many over the years have betrayed us all in the search for profit, if you’re gonna migrate to something you may as well go for the FOSS ones that are less in danger of enshittification (not a guarantee but far less of a chance since a fork kills all the walls around a walled garden pretty quickly), even if the FOSS product is not as polished.
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Thanks. Agree that this push away from us services should be seen as an opportunity to expand foss alternatives as well
What is FOSS? When i try to look it up, it just shows me some local companys website.
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/
Thanks 😅 obviously i know about open source, just never heard it called FOSS before
It’s a mashup of Free Software and Open Source Software.
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).
I’m Danish, so when i tried searching for it, it only wanted to show me the company lol.
Foss means waterfall in Norwegian from Norse fors. It doesn’t see any use in modern Danish from what I know, but there might be a link there considering that Danfoss works in fluid control equipment, pump, seal, valve manufacturing, climate & energy
True, it’s very rarely used in Danish any more. We do however say “det fosser ud/ind” regarding money/water/gas, so it is used in those specific cases. But I don’t think I’ve ever heard it elsewhere.