The first and most fundamental purpose of software is to run. A free program that does not do what the user wants is more restrictive than a proprietary program that does do what the user wants, because the first does not fulfill software's fundamental purpose, while the second does.

Freedom is not a fundamental purpose of software. Even if my car's blueprints are freely available, and it is simple to disassemble and reassemble it, **all of that matters nothing if it cannot move under its own power.**

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