Software Is the New Oil

Re:Software Is the New Oil by saryant on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @10:11AM (#10458070)

> The difference between data and oil is that you aren't going to drive to the oilfields one morning and find that it's all been hacked and stolen.

Ask Western oil workers in Libya or Nigeria or Venezuela or Mexico (depending on the decade) how accurate they feel that sentence is. Oil concessions have been regularly expropriated.

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Re:Software Is the New Oil by rm_-rf_slash on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @10:27AM (#10458167)

Fine then, stolen at the click of a button. Oil is a finite resource, software isn't. We create our own scarcity. Oil = software is a lazy metaphor.

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Re:Software Is the New Oil by saryant on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @12:13PM (#10458967)

As opposed to the stroke of a pen?

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