FLOSS Is Not Just Good for Your Teeth (2006)

Free, Libre and Open Source Explained (finally) in Simple English!

“Why do they call it ‘FLOSS’ when it doesn’t clean your teeth?”

Are you a non-nerd, a human being who happens to use computers without living inside them? Does that make you curious to find out what the buzz regarding open source and free software is all about? What’s in it for you? Does it work? Is it fun and easy to use? How is it made and who makes it? And how ‘free’ or ‘open’ is it, really? Have you looked long and hard for answers to questions like these in plain English? If that’s the case, ‘FLOSS is not just good for teeth’ could be just what you are looking for.

Impress your techie buddies with the fact that you care for your kernel, and open yourself to a whole new world of concepts that offer challenging and exciting ideas about creativity, collaboration and coding. ‘Floss’ geeks, make yourselves understood to other human beings – download and distribute ‘FLOSS is not just good for teeth’ to friends, family and colleagues, so they can finally know and appreciate what keeps you awake while they sleep.

‘FLOSS is not just good for teeth’ is a collaboratively produced introduction to the concepts that underlie free and open source software, written specially for the non-technical reader, at the Sarai Programme (www.sarai.net) of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.

Editorial/Design Coordinator: Monica Narula
Text: Ben Olin, Aniruddha ‘Karim’ Shankar, G Karunakar
Illustration: Parismita Singh
Design: Mrityunjay Chatterjee
ISBN: 81-901429-8-4
Delhi, 2006
32 pages

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