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&ldquo;Schools in India can benefit by redistributing free software to save on license fees&rdquo;, Stallman said. &ldquo;But free software offers a deeper benefit for education: the knowledge in free software is public knowledge, not secret. The sealed black box of a proprietary software system is designed to keep people in the dark. With free software, students can study the software they use, to learn how it works. They can write improvements to the software, and thus learn the craft of software development&mdash;which usually consists of improving existing programs.&rdquo;