I know that Reagan's ketchup is old news.  The relevance is that the definition 
of 
capital is very fluid.  If software is capital, why wan't it capital 25 years 
ago?




On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 01:19:01PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> 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 The second is ridiculous - and about 25 years out of date - but the first?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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