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by ovi256 5456 days ago
>I mean hardware is mostly also software in a sense

Sure, in a theoretical sense, hardware is software frozen in silicon, sometimes even analog silicon. However, the economics of software and hardware businesses couldn't be more different, and that's the point of the article.

Furthermore, low-level software is probably to be tied to the hardware biz from an economics standpoint.