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 == Free Software ==
+''Main article: [[What is free software?]]
 All of the software used in the Fediverse is Free Software.
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 * Freedom 3: The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others. By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
-If you yourself can't read or write code, so you can't study, change and distribute the program, you still have some advantages. You can trust the program, because other people studied the code to make sure it does (only) what it's supposed to do. You can request a feature to the developers and if the community deems that feature a good idea it will often be adopted.
+If you yourself can't read or write code, so you can't study, change and distribute the program, you still have some advantages. You can trust the program, because other people studied the code to make sure it does (only) what it's supposed to do. You can request a feature from the developers and if the community deems that feature a good idea it will often be adopted.
 == No spying, no ads, no algorithm, no shadowbanning, ... ==