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In order for the Users to have Control
over a Program,
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or some other Work that they
use to do practical Jobs,
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the users need four essential Freedoms.
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Freedom zero is the Freedom,
to use the Work, as you wish,
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to run the Program, as you wish,
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doing whatever Job, you want to do.
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Freedom one is the Freedom, to study the Work
in the best possible Form
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and change it, so the Work does the Job,
the way you wish.
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In the case of Software, this means
to study the real
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Source Code and change that.
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Well, these two Freedoms provide
individual Control over the Program
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or other Work,
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meaning each User can Adapt the Work
to that User's needs.
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For collective Control, we need two more
essential Freedoms.
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Freedom two is the Freedom, to
redistribute exact Copies
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and Freedom three is the Freedom, to
redistribute your modified Versions.
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This allows the People in a Group to
cooperate with each other
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as they make Changes in the Program or
other Work
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And also to offer their Version to others,
if they wish.
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So, with these four Freedoms, the Users
control the Work
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and they control, what they do with it.
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In the Case of Software the Users can
control their Computing.
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And that's what this is Fundamentally about-
Users deserve to have Control
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of their own Computing.
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It's wrong, for someone else to Control
your Computing.
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That's an Injustice.
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and We should get rid of that.
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[Trade-free means you are in control]