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I assume they're talking about the fact that software can be replicated at no cost but is constrained by pricepoints, encrypted code, licensing agreements, versioning flags, and so on. It's been artificially constrained in code.


Correct. Although the constraints often involve code, they don't have to. Enterprise license agreements are ultimately enforced with threat of legal action, coin-op arcade games by a physical mechanism, for example.




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