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&ldquo;You are entitled to the freedom that free software gives you.&rdquo; Stallman said. It isn't just in India that people are entitled to an alternative to proprietary software. The inauguration of FSF-India is a step forward in the expansion of the Free Software Foundation. Free software communities around the world are formally organizing, as FSF-India has now done, with a goal of better assisting businesses, governments, and educators everywhere to understand the philosophical ideals behind free software and how these ideals directly create practical advantages to those who use and create it. Stallman continued &ldquo;Computer users in India, as elsewhere, deserve the freedom to share and change software, the way cooks share and change recipes. So I am pleased to inaugurate the Free Software Foundation of India, which will promote the use and the development of free software in this country. At first, FSF-India will help individuals, communities, schools, governments and enterprises in India make use of the free software that the rest of the world has already developed. Over time, FSF-India will lead Indian programmers to contribute to the human knowledge that free software represents.&rdquo;