On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 10:13:50AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Ryan Underwood <nemesis-lists@icequake.net> [040423 04:01]: > > This is ridiculous. Extending the definition of software past "a set of > > formal instructions for a general purpose computing device, that > > describe an algorithm that runs on the device to transform an input > > string into an output string", is not productive IMO. > > Please, not again. Please go read the archives why software always meant > "any stream of bits" and only gets sometimes narrowed in meaning to > "instructions" in the recent time. I have been following this thread since last month, and nobody has yet convinced me that programs (DFSG#2) are equivalent to "software" as referred to in the rest of the Social Contract. Feel free to put forward a good argument or link to a refutation. -- Ryan Underwood, <nemesis@icequake.net>
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