Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
That's not software. That's firmware, at best -- you can look at it as software, but then you don't get to distribute any drivers. It is also internally consistent to think of chips as hardware and distribute drivers appropriately. It is never consistent to think of files on disk as anything but software.
Hmmm, I have a CF card. Upon it are files, and in every meaningful way it is a disk. Therefor, that data is software.
Yet, CF is actually chips --- often the same chips as used to hold firmware distributed with hardware. Thus, it's all hardware.