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software is a product where development costs (designing the product, writing the code) dwarf manufacturing cost (compiling the code, deploying the executables)
by metaphorm 12y ago
software is a product where development costs (designing the product, writing the code) dwarf manufacturing cost (compiling the code, deploying the executables).
- comicjk 12y agoA developed product is protected by copyright, not a patent. Software patents are for ideas, and the vaguer, the more valuable. Developing an idea like one-click ordering takes virtually no added time; all the better if you can wait for someone else to do the development and then collect the reward.