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But people generally can't do is hold the users to ransom, squeezing a lots of painful money out of them, because at that point the users will redistribute copies to each other, they will make the effort. So free software can't be used to squeeze money out of people in a way that hurts society. But it doesn't mean that no money ever changes hands it does not mean gratis. Sometimes people in India refer it to as Mukth software or Swatantra software, to emphasis that we are not talking about gratis. But it is true that the savings that users can have because they are not forced to pay for permission, can be important for encouraging computer use, in a country with lots of poor people, because authorized copies of the software can cost more than the computer.