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Because it is software-controlled radios, that is to say devices whose operating characteristics are contained in software and can be modified by their users, that reclaim the spectrum for shared rather than propertarian use. Here is the central problem that we will be dealing with, not at the end of this decade, but for the two or three decades that follow, as we seek to improve access to knowledge around the world for every human mind. We will be dealing with the question of how to make the technical and legal tools under our control free the spectrum.