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But not everybody is a programmer. If we had just freedom one, then programmers could change the software to do what they want. But if each programmer had to make his changes personally, we would not really have much control. We would be limited to what each of us, individually, could do. Non-programmers would get no benefit at all. That is why freedom three and two are crucial, because freedoms two and three allow a group of users to work together and make the software do what they jointly want. So you are not limited to changing it individually, personally.