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'''Reviewer:''' [[User:Malleus Fatuorum|Malleus]] [[User_talk:Malleus_Fatuorum|Fatuorum]] 15:27, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

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;General

*Large chunks of this article have been copied almost word for word from the [[Free Software]] article, in which FOSS seems to be adequately covered already, which puts some doubt in my mind about the existence of this article. It needs to be a lot more than a copy of another one, and I frankly don't see that it is right now.

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*"... the two terms grew out of different philosophies". Already said that in the previous paragraph.

*"... the two terms grew out of different philosophies and are often used to signify different distribution methodologies." What's meant by "distribution methodologies" here? The citation seems to say nothing about any methodology for distribution.

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;Adoption by governments

*This section is very choppy, with lots of very short paragraphs. It needs to be organised thematically; for instance, which governments have adopted Linux (of whatever flavour), other open-source software like OpenOffice, or perhaps categorise by office applications vs non, such as Apache and MySql, neither of which are mentioned strangely.

*What are these governments actually adopting? Free software, open source software, or FOSS? In what way would a FOSS licence (is there such a thing?) differ from either of the other two types of licence? Is this section actually relevant to FOSS at all, rather than to the open source and free software articles?

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*There are five dead links.[http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/webchecklinks.py?page=Free_and_open_source_software]

Closing review as per nominator's request.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AFleetCommand&action=historysubmit&diff=431051692&oldid=430990894]

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