But the software is stored on physical drives as ones and zeroes? What’s the difference compared to printing it on paper? It’s a different representation of it, on a different physical medium. But physical all the same.
What are the rules, here? What’s your personal definition of physical that I don’t know about?
The difference is that they are stored magneticly/electronicly on a drive, that means that it is just a change of property of a physical material that change, not any addition of material as ink or toner
They are when you install them?
No, the only time software actually becomes physical is if you print the source code:
But the software is stored on physical drives as ones and zeroes? What’s the difference compared to printing it on paper? It’s a different representation of it, on a different physical medium. But physical all the same.
What are the rules, here? What’s your personal definition of physical that I don’t know about?
The difference is that they are stored magneticly/electronicly on a drive, that means that it is just a change of property of a physical material that change, not any addition of material as ink or toner
So there’s an addition of charge? Physical addition/change!
I just feel like you’re nitpicking this in absurdum. That’s my honest take. ✋
Well, isn’t it a point of philisophy to nitpick and explore conceptual differences?
Alright, I feel like we’ve done that now. 👍