Re: Please remove RFCs from the documentation in Debian packages
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:14:49PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> > software
> > n : (computer science) written programs or procedures or
> > rules and associated documentation pertaining to the
> > operation of a computer system and that are stored in
> > read/write memory [...]
>
> So if you print out a program, it is no longer considered software?
I'd say not, it's a written document of a program. You can't very well
run a piece of paper, can you? :P
> Or if you burn it to cd or dvd?
When the program is run, it gets put in read/write memory.
Neil
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