

Even the average tech person doesn’t know what it means.
The term was coined by Christine Peterson of the Free software movement, and is defined to specify software that is free and open source (FOSS).
This was after problems with the term “free software” because it was a bad term, that was hijacked to also include software free of cost but closed and proprietary, so far from open source. And free was not generally understood as free as in libre.
After the Free software movement coined the term. The Free Software Foundation also adopted it, and to distinguish they called it FLOSS, for “Free as in Libre and Open Source Software”, where the libre means that the code is protected from being “jailed” because it has a so called strong copyleft license, like for instance GPL. So MIT, BSD and public domain are not FLOSS but they are FOSS.
https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source-software
/Nothing in this life is simple.





If it is illegal for a human to participate in the planning of a shooting, it must equally be illegal for an AI.
If the AI is not held accountable, and by extension the people responsible for the AI, then AI can be used for all sorts of illegal shit, with nobody being punished for it.