Show HN: OSwatch – A News Aggregation Site for Open-Source Software

Re:Show HN: OSwatch – A News Aggregation Site for Open-Sourc... by d99kris on Friday January 15, 2016 @08:57AM (#10909280)

Thanks for the feedback! It looks like the name was not optimally chosen based on the feedback in this thread, so I may need to address that. If the site or FB/twitter-feeds gains more regular users than myself I'll definitely look into it.

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Re:Show HN: OSwatch – A News Aggregation Site for Open-Sourc... by jordigh on Friday January 15, 2016 @09:20AM (#10909425)

I like "foss". It's almost universally understood to refer to free software and open source. These two are really the same thing, but just like "cease and desist" or "terms and conditions", a little redundancy doesn't hurt to get the point across.

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Re:Show HN: OSwatch – A News Aggregation Site for Open-Sourc... by ddoolin on Friday January 15, 2016 @09:24AM (#10909451)

Yes! FOSSwatch seems to ring really nicely to me as well.

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Re:Show HN: OSwatch – A News Aggregation Site for Open-Sourc... by d99kris on Friday January 15, 2016 @09:39AM (#10909529)

OK thanks for the suggestion - I've gone ahead and registered FOSSwatch.com. Will likely switch, but maybe not tonight.

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Re:Show HN: OSwatch – A News Aggregation Site for Open-Sourc... by cnr on Friday January 15, 2016 @09:25AM (#10909453)

Some folks like also "FLOSS" term

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Re:Show HN: OSwatch – A News Aggregation Site for Open-Sourc... by JoshTriplett on Friday January 15, 2016 @04:54PM (#10912442)

True, but it's unfortunately a lot less widely recognized.

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