Software is an idea morphed into a material configuration.
What the idea "hammer" is to wood and metal is the idea "GTA V" to a computer system.
The only difference is, that everyone can tell his computer to configure itself for running GTA with information from its installation package. But one can not simply tell its wood and metal to configure itself to be a hammer with a documentation of how to build a hammer. The documentation is more of a source code and needs a compiler, a craftsman or machine, that could make the hammer with this docs.
That's why I find these commercials about "stealing software" so funny.
"You wouldn't steal a car!" as if it was the same as downloading software.
It isn't.
Stealing a car is more like stealing a PC installed with some software.
Downloading software is more like stealing the documentation of how to build a car in some format that only the materials cars are build of can understand.
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Software is an idea morphed into a material configuration.
What the idea "hammer" is to wood and metal is the idea "GTA V" to a computer system.
The only difference is, that everyone can tell his computer to configure itself for running GTA with information from its installation package. But one can not simply tell its wood and metal to configure itself to be a hammer with a documentation of how to build a hammer. The documentation is more of a source code and needs a compiler, a craftsman or machine, that could make the hammer with this docs.
That's why I find these commercials about "stealing software" so funny.
"You wouldn't steal a car!" as if it was the same as downloading software.
It isn't.
Stealing a car is more like stealing a PC installed with some software.
Downloading software is more like stealing the documentation of how to build a car in some format that only the materials cars are build of can understand.