frotz /frots/
1. n. See frobnitz. 2. `mumble
frotz': An interjection of mildest disgust.
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frotzed /frotst/ adj.
down because of hardware problems.
Compare fried. A machine that is
merely frotzed may be fixable without replacing parts, but a
fried machine is more seriously damaged.
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frowney n.
(alt. `frowney face') See emoticon.
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FRS // n.,obs.
Abbreviation for "Freely Redistributable Software" which
entered general use on the Internet in 1995 after years of
low-level confusion over what exactly to call software written to
be passed around and shared (contending terms including freeware, shareware, and `sourceware' were never
universally felt to be satisfactory for various subtle reasons).
The first formal conference on freely redistributable software
was held in Cambridge, Massachussetts, in February 1996
(sponsored by the Free Software Foundation). The conference
organizers used the FRS abbreviation heavily in its calls for
papers and other literature during 1995. The term was in steady
though not common use until 1998 and the invention of open source.