OSS

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OSS

OSS:

Written-only acronym for "Open Source Software" (see open source). This is a rather ugly TLA, and the principals in the open-source movement don't use it, but it has (perhaps inevitably) spread through the trade press like kudzu.

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Sources

Source: OSS, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.

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