On Apr 25, 2008, at 1:04 PM, Michael Perelman wrote:

The government now regards software as capital & ketchup as a vegetable.

The second is ridiculous - and about 25 years out of date - but the first? Why is software not capital? A computer is. What's a computer without software? Would firmware be capital because it's software embedded in hardware but not pure software? I don't get why these two things are equally silly.

Doug
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