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With Free Software, users received all the benefits of digital education without being constrained to compromise their principles. The ethical values of Free Software are in line with and sustain those principles: not only were people free to use the software as they wished, install it in as many machines as they wished, but they were encouraged to copy it and share it with their neighbors in solidarity. Mani has become an artist using GIMP and a student of Computer Science; by now, he has acquired enough knowledge to study the source code and to modify it to meet the needs of his community, if necessary. Software freedom results in redistribution of intellectual and economic wealth, which is not possible where access to knowledge is restricted.