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This led to a paradoxical situation where two different ways of counting the amount of freedom gave different answers to the question, &ldquo;Is this program free?&rdquo; If you judged based on the freedom provided by the distribution terms of the MIT release, you would say that X was free software. But if you measured the freedom of the average user of X, you would have to say it was proprietary software. Most X users were running the proprietary versions that came with Unix systems, not the free version.