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But also, for the sake of educating the programmers. You see, some people have a talent for programming. At ten to thirteen years old, typically, they're fascinated, and if they use a program, they want to know: &ldquo;How does it do this?&rdquo; But when they ask the teacher, if it's proprietary, the teacher has to say: &ldquo;I'm sorry, it's a secret, we can't find out.&rdquo; Which means education is forbidden. A proprietary program is the enemy of the spirit of education. It's knowledge withheld, so it should not be tolerated in a school, even though there may be plenty of people in the school who don't care about programming, don't want to learn this. Still, because it's the enemy of the spirit of education, it shouldn't be there in the school.