but c'mon. I'm referring to the fact that code can be made into libraries, or APIs if you're so keen on collecting rent
and then as a digital asset, the library can be copied and distributed, hence code can be written once (one team writes it) then everybody else can use it with no additional cost, (again, unless you actually want to tax/collect-rent from other people, then you make up this additional cost)
Only if you use dictionary meanings of words. Otherwise it really is not different. 99.99% of all meaningful code is not gotten right on the first try. As said above, you have to iterate on it.
> I'm referring to the fact that code can be made into libraries, or APIs if you're so keen on collecting rent
Name one library -- that is NOT just a network client for a paid SaaS service -- and then maybe I'll understand what point you're trying to make. And even if you find one, they are a vanishingly small, undetectable, minority.
you should learn about systems software... they may be 'vanishingly small' but they're there in the foundations of the entire computing stack. done once, a long time ago, and used by all ever since.
just the most basics: but there are (sadly were) more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glibc
They're not written in stone. They still change and evolve.
I reject a future in which all software works as a subscription based service; this is just more taxes (in principle)
I see society going down this path and there are no good reasons for this at all (it is just double then triple then mutliplefold taxation on activity; and what for? so that few lucky persons collect rent forever?).
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