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Then, there's the threat from hardware that has secret specifications or is designed to interfere with the user's control. Nowadays there are many pieces of hardware you can get for your PC whose specifications are secret. They'll sell you the hardware, but they won't tell you how to run it. So how do we write free software to run it? Well, we either have to figure out the specs by reverse engineering or we have to put market pressure on those companies. And in both cases, we are weakened by the fact that so many of the users of GNU/Linux don't know why this system was developed and have never heard of these ideas that I'm telling you today. And the reason is that, when they hear about the system, they hear it called Linux and it's associated with the apolitical philosophy of Linus Torvalds.