Why is selling software so weird?
I&#x27;d predicate the answer to this question on a much more materialistic basis than the author : it&#x27;s weird to sell software because it&#x27;s doesn&#x27;t really exist. I mean, it&#x27;s barely tangible.<p>You can copy it indefinitely. It doesn&#x27;t exist physically.
It&#x27;s much more natural really to buy, say, a painting or a house. You can hang it, see it, use it. You have exactly one house, exactly one of this painting. Software, compared to that, just feel lazy.<p>One could argue that most software in history did not really improve anything, and that true innovation came from advancements in hardware, which software just took time to adapt to.