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		magnusjonsson on May 10, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The software industry is due for an industrial rev... What's the software analogy of a factory? Making copies is simple in software so you must have something else in mind?

chton on May 10, 2014 [–]

Software needs to be configured and integrated. Those steps resemble the manufacturing process a lot more. I'll go more into this in the second part, I hope I'll be able to make it clear enough.

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