MJ Ray wrote:
Stefan Meretz stefan.meretz@hbv.org writes:
The point is not whether those tricks base on artificial restraints or not. The point is how to deal with scarcity? Software is always scarce (especially good one).
No, software is never scarce, but the skills to create it and many of the associated products are, so naturally they have a price to their consumers. Again, I see no contradiction.
No, software is sometimes scarce. Standard software is readily available and freely copyable, so it's not scarse. But special-purpose software is scarse if it doesn't exist yet and you have to write it or get someone to write it for you. And while flexible libraries, tools, etc. make it easier to write special-pupose software, there will be much need for special-purpose software at least for quite some time to come.
Frank