>>>Actually, there is....
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>>>Free as in "I get my word processor for free, my OS for free, you get the source code for free, so it shouldn't cost me anything to have you modify it to do what I need". I have seen businesses say this.
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>>That's not a failing with free software, but in their understanding of it.
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>>>I have also seen software companies look at free utilities, source files, and modules, only to find they can't use them because they would have to give away their own IP. The license takes away THEIR rights to THEIR software. Where is the freedom in that?
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>>IP doesn't exist. Property is tangible. Ideas are given to everybody through their basic faculties (i.e., a reasoning mind). It doesn't require a separate thing or group of things to obtain an idea. It only requires the basic qualities we already possess, plus that "spark" of the idea, which is given to us by God and set in motion by our experiences (schooling, circumstances -- though this also is not even always the case as there are spontaneous "out of the blue" ideas which occur to people all of the time).
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>>Each person has been given a measure by God of all those components which make us distinctly unique and individual.
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>And there are other sources for these components. Even we heathens get ideas, believe it or not.

The Universe? That's about a vague of a concept as God if you approach it objectively.