Z:gnu-www-ja-floss-and-foss--83649d-A researcher studying practice/en

A researcher studying practices and methods used by developers in the free software community decided that these questions were independent of the developers' political views, so he used the term &ldquo;FLOSS,&rdquo; meaning &ldquo;Free/Libre and Open Source Software,&rdquo; to explicitly avoid a preference between the two political camps. If you wish to be neutral, this is a good way to do it, since this makes the names of the two camps equally prominent.