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Re:Software licensing and my opposition to copyleft by jbob2000 on Friday October 30, 2020 @08:27AM (#24941508)
You’re conflating software with “the physical medium used to store and run software”. Computers, like the paper that books are printed on, are scarce, but the software or story, is not.

I can recite Harry Potter without the book, the story has no scarcity to it. Similarly, I can write a for loop without reading it’s structure from a hard drive.

Re:Software licensing and my opposition to copyleft by feanaro on Friday October 30, 2020 @07:26PM (#24947817)
I don't think I am, but I am using the word in a way that is not very common, in order to convey a lesson.

Could you have recited Harry Potter easily before you've heard it the first time?