FOSS and F/OSS
The first known use of the phrase "free open source software" on Usenet was in a posting on 18 March 1998, just a month after the term "open source" itself was coined. In February 2002, "F/OSS" appeared on a Usenet newsgroup dedicated to Amiga video games. In early 2002, MITRE used the term "FOSS" in what would later be their 2003 report Use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense.
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