> And you accuse me of pedantry? ...no? I was saying that my own response is pedantry, rather than being an argument that tries to address the spirit of your a

> And you accuse me of pedantry? ...no? I was saying that my own response is pedantry, rather than being an argument that tries to address the spirit of your argument. > This then comes under need then?!? Yes. The definition of "need" is "something that some higher-level goal cannot be achieved without." Ultimately, at the terminal level, everything is a preference; you want to continue living, companies want to not go bankrupt, etc. Everything required to achieve those terminal preferences, are needs. You need to eat if you want to live. A company needs to make money if it wants to avoid bankruptcy. Etc. > No, but the people within them make decisions, ie decisions to write a database. So the 'you' would be directed at the person in the organisation who decided to write the database. In a bigcorp, ultimately, a manager or business analyst decided that someone else should write them a database. Nobody decided to, themselves, write a database.