--- www/philosophy/free-sw.html	2019/03/20 10:56:16	1.164
+++ www/philosophy/free-sw.html	2019/07/30 10:09:02	1.168
@@ -128,8 +128,11 @@
 freedoms in question, and thus renders the program nonfree.
 </p>
 
-<p>The rest of this page clarifies certain points about what makes
-specific freedoms adequate or not.</p>
+<h3>Clarifying the line at various points</h3>
+
+<p>In the rest of this article we explain more precisely how far the
+various freedoms need to extend, on various issues, in order for a
+program to be free.</p>
 
 <h4>The freedom to run the program as you wish</h4>
 
@@ -151,11 +154,20 @@
 functioning in any given environment, or whether it is useful for any
 particular computing activity.</p>
 
+<p>For example, if the code arbitrarily rejects certain meaningful
+inputs&mdash;or even fails unconditionally&mdash;that may make the
+program less useful, perhaps even totally useless, but it does not
+deny users the freedom to run the program, so it does not conflict
+with freedom 0.  If the program is free, the users can overcome the
+loss of usefulness, because freedoms 1 and 3 permit users and
+communities to make and distribute modified versions without the
+arbitrary nuisance code.</p>
+
 <h4>The freedom to study the source code and make changes</h4>
 
 <p>
 In order for freedoms 1 and 3 (the freedom to make changes and the
-freedom to publish the changed versions) to be meaningful, you must have
+freedom to publish the changed versions) to be meaningful, you need to have
 access to the source code of the program.  Therefore, accessibility of
 source code is a necessary condition for free software.  Obfuscated
 &ldquo;source code&rdquo; is not real source code and does not count
@@ -448,10 +460,9 @@
 
 <ul>
 
-<li><a href="http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/www/philosophy/free-sw.html?root=www&amp;r1=1.162&amp;r2=1.163">Version
-1.163</a>: Clarify that the four freedoms apply to any and all users,
-and that requiring users to pay to exercise some of these freedoms is
-a way of denying them.</li>
+<li><a href="http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/www/philosophy/free-sw.html?root=www&amp;r1=1.164&amp;r2=1.165">Version
+1.165</a>: Clarify that arbitrary annoyances in the code do not
+negate freedom 0, and that freedoms 1 and 3 enable users to remove them.</li>
 
 <li><a href="http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/www/philosophy/free-sw.html?root=www&amp;r1=1.152&amp;r2=1.153">Version
 1.153</a>: Clarify that freedom to run the program means nothing stops
@@ -642,7 +653,7 @@
 
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