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--- faqs:evergreen_faq_3 [2008/09/26 08:59] – kgs
+++ zzz_archive:faqs:evergreen_faq_3 [2022/02/10 13:34] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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 **Also see:**
-  *[[faqs:Evergreen FAQ 1|Frequently Asked Questions about Evergreen]]
+  *[[zzz:evergreen_faq_1|Frequently Asked Questions about Evergreen]]
-  *[[faqs:Evergreen FAQ 2|Frequently Asked Questions about Evergreen's Features and Technical Infrastructure]]
+  *[[zzz:evergreen_faq_2|Frequently Asked Questions about Evergreen's Features and Technical Infrastructure]]
-  *[[faqs:Evergreen and Open Source Glossary]]
+  *[[zzz:evergreen_and_open_source_glossary]]
   *[[faqs:Evergreen Feature Request Procedures]]
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   *[[faqs:Evergreen Roadmap]]
-  *[[faqs:evergreen_and_open_source_glossary| An Evergreen and Open Source Glossary]]
+  *[[zzz:evergreen_and_open_source_glossary| An Evergreen and Open Source Glossary]]
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 **Do I have to support the software with my library's technical staff?**
-While you //can// support OSS software with local resources, for a number of products, you don't //have// to. Companies such as [[http://esilibrary.com|Equinox]], Media Flex, Red Hat, Acquia, and others provide soup-to-nuts services, including consulting, migration, support, development, training, and more.
+While you //can// support OSS software with local resources, for a number of products, you don't //have// to. Companies such as Media Flex, Red Hat, Acquia, and others provide soup-to-nuts services, including consulting, migration, support, development, training, and more. With regards to Evergreen, there are [[faqs:evergreen_companies|several companies that could help.]]
-**What's the difference between OSS, FLOSS, and FOSS?**
+**What's the difference between Free Software, Open Source Software, OSS, FLOSS, and FOSS?**
-FLOSS (Free/Libre OSS) and FOSS (Free OSS) are sometimes used as synonyms for OSS to emphasize the "free" quality of the software.
+OSS = Open Source Software
+FLOSS = Free/Libre/Open Source Software
+FOSS = Free/Open Source Software
+All of these terms describe nearly the same sort of software, and are often used interchangeably, but there are two main camps, and the proponents behind each focus on different things.  Free Software is a social movement, concerned with user freedoms.  It is much aligned with library values.  Open source started more as a marketing campaign, highlighting the pragmatism of a certain kind of development process/culture, and it tries to sidestep the ambiguity of the word "free" in English (consider the distinction between Free as in Beer and Free as in Speech, gratis versus libre.  Free as in Kittens is a different tangent altogether--all things have some sort of "cost", and all software is kittens, free or otherwise).  FLOSS tries to encompasses both camps and not choose between the two.
+The original Evergreen developers advocated the GPL license for both pragmatic and philosophical reasons.  In practice, Evergreen gets described as OSS in the U.S., mostly due to its power as a brand, and FLOSS elsewhere.
+For more information and viewpoints, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOSS, http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html, and http://opensource.org/
 **I tried OSS once and it wasn't very good. Is all OSS created equally?**