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woody14619
2011-02-15 , 19:27
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Just because a material is abundant doesn't mean that the
value of labor
is lessened. Just because there are a lot of trees around doesn't mean tables or chairs are free. You need a
logger
to chop down the trees, a
mill
to plane the wood, and a
carpenter
to build the objects.
Owning a small forest doesn't
entitle
you to free wooden objects of an equal volume of wood, just as having lots of ones and zeros doesn't
entitle
you to get all the programs for free.
You still have to pay for the labor involved in crafting that wood (or those ones and zeros) into something useful.
Originally Posted by
TiagoTiago
If you think a program isn't a number, you are really clueless to how computers work.
If you think a program
is
just a number, then it's
you
who are clueless as to how computers work. I hold two degrees, one in computer programming and another in computer engineering. I create devices like the N900 (albeit significantly less complex) for a living. Based on that, I think I may have just a
wee
bit of knowledge about how computers work and what a program is. What are your credentials to claim otherwise?
Programming takes work and effort. If it could be done randomly, it would be. The fact that it can't be done that way is proof that it's not
just
a number. If your "number" theory were right, one could just take "a number" off of a Windows computer and put it on a Mac, or an N900 and it would work just the same. It's not. And the fact that you can't get that concept lends to why you can't get the conceptual difference between
labor
and
material
.
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