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So, for those many users, the X Window System was no more free than the rest of UNIX. In this paradoxical situation, the answer to the question "is X free software or not?" depended on where you made the measurement. If you made the measurement coming out of the developer's group, you'd say, "I observe all four freedoms; it's free software." If you made the measurement among the users, you'd say, "most of them don't have these freedoms; it's not free software."