It's an old known economic axiom that a vibrant used product market makes new products more valuable. The software industry has been both ignorant of economics

It's an old known economic axiom that a vibrant used product market makes new products more valuable. The software industry has been both ignorant of economics and too greedy, thinking they can make more money by killing the used market. This will obviously change things but only in so far as it brings software closer to every other type of product.