Yes, and software products are the sum total of all of the effort put into developing, advertising, maintaining, and supporting them. The fact that they are di

Yes, and software products are the sum total of all of the effort put into developing, advertising, maintaining, and supporting them. The fact that they are distributed as data is an inconsequential fact that obscures what they actually represent, and that is very much a human achievement no different from painting a picture or building a couch. There are tooling costs and all sorts of ongoing fixed costs, just like any other business. As for Star Trek: when that day comes, we'll deal with it then.