Free and Open Source Software, abbreviated as FOSS, is an ideology more than it is a technical term. It is a vision which aims to bring the advancements in the Software field to the whole humanity. We, the members of FOSS wing of the IIIT-A Technical Society are committed to working for this noble cause.

The advantage of FOSS is that anyone is freely licensed to use, copy, study, and change the software in any way, and the source code is openly shared so that people are encouraged to voluntarily improve the design of the software. The benefits of using FOSS can include decreasing software costs, increasing security and stability, protecting privacy, and giving users more control over their own hardware. Free, open-source operating systems such as Linux and descendents of BSD are widely utilized today, powering millions of servers, desktops, smartphones (e.g. Android), and other devices. Free software licenses and open-source licenses are used by many software packages.