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Old 06-10-2008, 11:14 PM   #62
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Originally Posted by pilotbob View Post
Can't convince me. I work as a developer writting apps that run on Windows. Our payroll product probably pays over 100,000 people every week. Tell those people getting those pay checks that the software which creates them isn't tangible.

If by tangible, you mean physical... well sure.

BOb
Wouldn't even think of telling those 100.000 people what they create is not tangible! The logistics would be a nightmare!

But Neal Stephenson's article is available as a text file at the link I posted . And agree or not, it is an interesting discussion of computer OS's.

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