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Now, it was suggested I should talk about, some issues having to do with hardware. Sometimes, people ask whether hardware also should be free. Well, the issue only partly is meaningful. Because you see, what does it mean for software to be free. It means that, you are free to use it if you wish, study what it does, and change it. And copy it, and distribute copies, including modified copies. But you see, ordinary users of hardware, can't copy the hardware. There are no copiers. If I am ordinary user of software, I can copy it. Because every computer is a copier for software. And I don't need any special facilities to be able to study the plans and change them. I just need to understand programming. Then I can read the source code, as long as the developer will let me have a copy of the source code.