[abduhl]

So your major point is that software is unique because it:

1. Spans N orders of magnitude in scale which is M orders of magnitude more than X sector.

2. A single individual can put out superb products while some teams put out mediocre products.

3. The possibility exists for companies to be created with J founders and reach a valuation of K in L years.

Sorry, but none of these are unique to software. They're just the same arguments for anything else with different values for the variables.

Again, your sector is not unique. Last time we thought software was a unique sector lead to the great "paradigm shift" (as Greenspan called it, I believe) of 2000. You might know it better as the dot-com bubble.

[Locke1689]

They're just the same arguments for anything else with different values for the variables.

That this makes two industries "equivalent" is an even more far-fetched claim than InclinedPlane's.