On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 10:45:36 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:


But what bugs me is: why do they even have that value? Just because
something has cost someone $X to produce, why should it even be worth $X
to anyone else? If it's a manufactured object, or piece of software in
the widest sense (i. e. including literature, music, video, art, etc.),


To change from one off-topic subject to another g, I've never seen
any of those things referred to as "software" before, not even as
"software in the widest sense."

To me, none of those are software. Software, to me, is something that
can't be touched; an arrangement of electronic bits that has some
particular function.