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French Learner Language Oral Corpora
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Just pondering the relative strengths of FLLO and FLLOC versus FLO as an acronym and meme to replace FS and OSS, FS/OSS, FOSS and, the ever-so-despised FLOSS, all current pop’ descriptors of Free/Libre, Linux, Open-source, Commons software and other products, now including not just so-called soft Intellectual Property (IP), Information Systems (IS) or InfoTech (IT) but even hardware.
We’d been using FLO for reasons spelt out in several places here and elsewhere, principally brevity, comprehensiveness and marketing appeal. But FLO suffers like all the terms it seeks to replace from search-engine ambiguity or incompatibility.
Both FLLO and FLLOC solve the search-engine issue while retaining the short, sharp, positively relevant, feel-good factors suggested by their pronunciations: FLO like “flow”; FLLOC like “flock”.
Think freedom, independence, alternative lifestyles, activism, community, ecology, then search for FLLO or FLLOC to find quick links to
(Free|Libre|Linux|Open-source|Commons) communities and their products, whether software, music, films, fiction, computer hardware, physical media or documentation, networking, campaign or other information services.
AcronymFinder has no definitions for FLLOC, yet. It’s only definition for FLLO is “Form-Launch-Lay-Off” which apparently sources to an older SatireWire article entitled, Business-To-Unemployment (B2U) Dubbed Next Big Thing, as Googling FLLO suggests. (How apropos! Humor is always good. No?)
While FLLO now pulls up some 14,500 hits from Google, most seem to be misspellings or intended slang for “floor” (positive too, no?) or an apparently now-obscure chemical reaction, though it may have popular usages in languages other than English.
FLLOC, on the other hand, only really competes with the French Learner Language Oral Corpora (FLLOC), an obscure but still-positive association with some relevance to Software Libre. Some minor ambiguity might exist with Flock, but it should be mutually and positively reinforcing, no?
Personally, we’d rather “Go with the FLLO”, though we could perfectly understand and feel comfortable with others wanting to “FLLOC - Together”.
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Tuesday February 07, 2006 (03:01 PM GMT), Robert W. Oliver II wrote at Linux.com on the benefits of using LightTPD and how to install it on GNU/Linux system behind Apache.
