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Story: Understanding software as a commodity

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There are three preconditions of software commoditisation for personal computers.

1) Operating system should be provided for the user in the form of removable memory card. OS should be fixed or upgraded by replacing the card, not by means of downloading patches.
2) Every application software should be pre-installed on a removable memory card. What a user needs to do is only to buy the software-card, and then plug it into one of his/her computer's memory card slots.
3) Software vendors should owe "Product Liability" to the users, just like commodity manufacturers in general.

In short: make computer a blackbox with minimum flexibility for upgrading, and make software product be encapsulated within a medium. One of byproducts of this scenario is ease of copyright management for developers.

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