Richard Stallman wrote:
That itself has problems. Do you mean home computer users? From what I know, most large companies, including hardware vendors, and governments uses computers as well, so they are too "computer users", thus copy hardware aren't impractical for every "computer users in general".A few computer users are in a position manufacture hardware, but computer users in general do not have that capability. (Meanwhile, manufacturing does not work by copying a sample; copying as such is not doable.)
A few software users are in a position to code software.. but not many code software very well. Out of all the computer users using computers, not many code software, relative to the amount of people that use and abuse software as if it was a seedless grape they were eating. In fact most software programmers suck at programming.. and that is why we have so much bloatware.
It takes great great skill, and thousands of hours of investment to be a useful, good programmer. As with hardware, only a few are really capable of producing the software.
IMO, it is just as easy to garden plants, than to grow software. I'd argue that growing apple trees is much easier than software development... just that apple trees require space to grow. Apple trees require this space to grow, but they make up for this disadvantage by being much easier to code. There is no coding of an apple tree.. other than planting it and knowing to prune it.
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