>Software is economically worthless without making it artificially scarce. If that were the case no software would be written except by hobbyists as a kind of

>Software is economically worthless without making it artificially scarce. If that were the case no software would be written except by hobbyists as a kind of joke. Software provides value other than being scarce and it's really the maintenance of the software that people are wanting (those paying attention at least) not the software itself.