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Skribent: Antony Stone
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Til: dng
Emne: Re: [DNG] Which is Free, Which is Open Source, is there any difference?
On Friday 12 January 2018 at 23:28:14, Rick Moen wrote:

> I wrote:
>
> > 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.


Thanks :)

That did get me, until I read it twice...

Antony.

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