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So, instead of being divided and helpless, the users of this system would live in freedom. Ordinary proprietary software is part of a scheme where users are deliberately kept divided and helpless. The program comes with a license that says you're forbidden to share it, and in most cases you can't get the source code, so you can't study it or change it. It may even have malicious features and you can't tell. With free software, we respect the user's freedom, and that's the whole point. The reason for the free software movement is so that the people of cyberspace can have freedom, so that there is a way to live in freedom and still use a computer, to avoid being kept divided and helpless.