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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>FRS</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="frowney.html" title="frowney"/><link rel="next" href="fry.html" title="fry"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">FRS</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="frowney.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="fry.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="FRS"/><dt xmlns="" id="FRS"><b>FRS</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.,obs.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [obs.] Abbreviation for “<span class="quote">Freely Redistributable
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Software</span>” which entered general use on the Internet in 1995 after
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years of low-level confusion over what exactly to call software written to
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be passed around and shared (contending terms including
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<a href="freeware.html"><i class="glossterm">freeware</i></a>, <a href="../S/shareware.html"><i class="glossterm">shareware</i></a>, and
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<span class="firstterm">sourceware</span> were never universally
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felt to be satisfactory for various subtle reasons). The first formal
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conference on freely redistributable software was held in Cambridge,
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Massachussetts, in February 1996 (sponsored by the Free Software
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Foundation). The conference organizers used the FRS abbreviation heavily in
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its calls for papers and other literature during 1995. The term was in
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steady though not common use until 1998 and the invention of
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<a href="../O/open-source.html"><i class="glossterm">open source</i></a>, after which it became swiftly
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obsolete.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="frowney.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="fry.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">frowney<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>fry</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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