Rishab Aiyer Ghosh is a

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advocate and software entrepreneur. He was a founder of

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, a social search and analytics company that was acquired by

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in December 2013. A former

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board member, he is Founding International and Managing Editor of

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ed journal

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, and Programme Leader of Free/Libre and Open Source Software at UNU-MERIT. Ghosh has undertaken several studies on

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, which he terms "FLOSS" - an alternative term for free software which he is credited with coining. FLOSS emphasizes the essential value of the term "libre" (meaning with few or no restrictions). Ghosh's work represents an effort to reshape the global understanding of FLOSS, including the governmental and academic spheres.

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