Free and Open Source Software
What does the freedom in software freedom day mean?
of using and creating new applications
Philosophy of Open Source
According to the Free Software Foundation, "Nearly all open source software is free software. The two terms describe almost the same category of software, but they stand for views based on fundamentally different values."
Free software focuses on the fundamental freedoms it gives to users, whereas
Open source software focuses on the perceived strengths of its peer-to-peer development model.
FOSS is a term that can be used without particular bias towards either political approach.