Z:gnu-www-ja-rms-nyu-2001-transcript--07aafb-Freedom Three is where you mak/en

Freedom Three is where you make improvements &mdash; or at least you think they're improvements, and some other people may agree with you. So that's the difference. Oh, and by the way, one crucial point. Freedoms One and Three depend on your having access to the source code. Because changing a binary-only program is extremely hard. [Laughter] Even trivial changes like using four digits for the date, [Laughter] if you don't have source. So, for compelling, practical reasons, access to the source code is a precondition, a requirement, for free software.