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i highly disagree with that framing. the essence of a program is not the fact that people have been running it

you could write a great program and never run it. does that mean the program does now not exist? or that it is not a new, unique thing?

if anything, the essence of a program is made up by all of the things you mentioned!

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The confidence and trust accumulated by the users is paramount. I think that’s what we are talking about here.

That does not define a program, that sounds more like it defines a "product" which a product can be free.



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