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RICHARD: So should the free software philosophy apply to cars? Okay, well the free software philosophy is, you should be free to copy and modify them. So, if you have a car copier, I think you should be free to copy any car. But there are no car copiers, so that really is a meaningless question. And then, second, modifying. Well, yeah, I think if you've got a car, you should be free to modify it and, in fact, lots of people do modify their cars. So, there may be some restrictions on that, but to a large extent that freedom exists. So what you see is that this isn't really a meaningful question when you're talking about physical objects. There are, in general, no copiers for physical objects.