Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
Indian journalist
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| Intro | Indian journalist | |
| Places | India | |
| is | Engineer Computer scientist | |
| Work field | Engineering Technology Science | |
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| Birth | 1 January 1975 | |
| Age | 50 years |
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Rishab Aiyer Ghosh (born 1975) is a journalist, computer scientist and Open-source software advocate. A former Open Source Initiative board member, he is Founding International and Managing Editor of peer-reviewed journal First Monday, and Programme Leader of Free/Libre and Open Source Software at UNU-MERIT. Ghosh has undertaken several studies on free software, 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.
Ghosh was a founder of Topsy Labs, a social search and analytics company that was acquired by Apple Inc in December 2013.