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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