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Re:Learning VIM while playing a game by johncoltrane on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @08:25AM (#3883600)
Books are physical things, programs are not. Physical things are often thought to have more intrinsic value than virtual things because the money was transformed into something you can touch and feel versus a vague collection of bits somewhere on your gargantuan hard drive.
Re:Learning VIM while playing a game by ranit8 on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @07:13PM (#3886814)
Then software companies might add intrinsic value by selling storage media containing the programs, instead of just the programs.