I wrote:

> > I don't think the definitions of free software and open source
> > anticipated a form of obfuscation so powerful that a simple computer
> > program couldn't de-obfuscate it.
>
> Don't advance this argument that X isn't free software because its

                                   ^

> source code is too difficult for a third-party fork to adopt and
> maintain in practice unless you're also prepared to consider it for
> other obvious candidates such as OpenOffice.org, X.org, etc.

Ugh, I forgot that 'X' is overloaded in this context, and should have
said something like '$X' or '$FOO', so as not to seem to make a
confusing reference to the X Window System. Sorry about the unintended
ambiguity.

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