On the other hand, manufacturing has the general attitude that "software is free" because the incremental cost in production to make a copy is zero. Once, the

On the other hand, manufacturing has the general attitude that "software is free" because the incremental cost in production to make a copy is zero. Once, the production team swapped a component as part of a running change and it took a programmer nearly a month to write the new driver. I think we still came out ahead in the end but there was some worry along the way as it wasn't clear how long it was going to take.