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2409:4085:4EBB:89F:0:0:8F8B:FB0F ( talk) 14:12, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
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During the recent AfD, problems with the article's sourcing and content were brought up. I have resolved them with a new draft of the article and am pinging participants User:Praxidicae, User:EucalyptusTreeHugger, User:TartarTorte, and User:Aoidh in case any of you would be willing to implement the edit request.
User:Buidhe paid/Software should be copied into this article, above the categories. My version of the article also makes a clear differentiation between this article and computer program. It adds information about software development, software maintenance, quality and security, how software is executed on hardware, and the impact of software in the world.
Thanks! Buidhe paid ( talk) 04:41, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
WRT the current first line: Software is a collection of programs and data that tell a computer how to perform specific tasks. Software often includes associated software documentation. This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work.
Why say collection? A single program is software. Software does cover all programs so maybe that's why they use 'collection'. But, it's the collection of all programs. But that's awkward phrasing.
Why 'specific' task? Software tells how to do any task; even general ones.
Ordering of sentences causes the hardware part to seem to be in contrast to documentation when it should contrast software.
How about: Software is data, in particular machine instructions, that can control a computer via its machine instruction interface. Generally, software also encompasses related artifacts such as any source code used to drive execution and any documentation written as part of the development process.
Maybe this is more accessible (not just longer/wordier): Software is information that controls computer hardware via its machine instruction interface. Often is a computer program or a script. A native executable drives the hardware directly via machine instructions. The executable is software, but generally the source code used to generate the executable is also considered software. Software also generally encompasses interpreted source code that itself is not converted to machine code, but drives an interpreter that is machine code. Stevebroshar ( talk) 00:16, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
no need to read it
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The sentence "Software patents, like other types of patents, are theoretically supposed to give an inventor an exclusive, time-limited license for a detailed idea (e.g. an algorithm) on how to implement a piece of software," is false.
Patent protection is never awarded to "ideas" but "inventions". The sentence is legally misleading. Rebentisch ( talk) 10:49, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
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Buidhe paid ( talk) 02:51, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
I made this edit to make the definition of software easy to understand. It was reverted with the explanation that it needed quotation marks b/c it is a sentence from a textbook. The use of a simple sentence in an educational environment is allowed under US copyright law under the Fair use doctrine. Timhowardriley ( talk) 23:43, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
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2409:4085:4EBB:89F:0:0:8F8B:FB0F ( talk) 14:12, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
software downloader provide daily software update https://Softwaredownloader7.blogspot.com
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
During the recent AfD, problems with the article's sourcing and content were brought up. I have resolved them with a new draft of the article and am pinging participants User:Praxidicae, User:EucalyptusTreeHugger, User:TartarTorte, and User:Aoidh in case any of you would be willing to implement the edit request.
User:Buidhe paid/Software should be copied into this article, above the categories. My version of the article also makes a clear differentiation between this article and computer program. It adds information about software development, software maintenance, quality and security, how software is executed on hardware, and the impact of software in the world.
Thanks! Buidhe paid ( talk) 04:41, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
WRT the current first line: Software is a collection of programs and data that tell a computer how to perform specific tasks. Software often includes associated software documentation. This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work.
Why say collection? A single program is software. Software does cover all programs so maybe that's why they use 'collection'. But, it's the collection of all programs. But that's awkward phrasing.
Why 'specific' task? Software tells how to do any task; even general ones.
Ordering of sentences causes the hardware part to seem to be in contrast to documentation when it should contrast software.
How about: Software is data, in particular machine instructions, that can control a computer via its machine instruction interface. Generally, software also encompasses related artifacts such as any source code used to drive execution and any documentation written as part of the development process.
Maybe this is more accessible (not just longer/wordier): Software is information that controls computer hardware via its machine instruction interface. Often is a computer program or a script. A native executable drives the hardware directly via machine instructions. The executable is software, but generally the source code used to generate the executable is also considered software. Software also generally encompasses interpreted source code that itself is not converted to machine code, but drives an interpreter that is machine code. Stevebroshar ( talk) 00:16, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
no need to read it
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The sentence "Software patents, like other types of patents, are theoretically supposed to give an inventor an exclusive, time-limited license for a detailed idea (e.g. an algorithm) on how to implement a piece of software," is false.
Patent protection is never awarded to "ideas" but "inventions". The sentence is legally misleading. Rebentisch ( talk) 10:49, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
central processing unit or the brain 2001:4450:463E:B00:61B4:FEE9:BD89:FF0 ( talk) 05:56, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Summary of changes as a result of the Wiki99 project ( before, after, diff):
Further possibilities for improvement:
Buidhe paid ( talk) 02:51, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
I made this edit to make the definition of software easy to understand. It was reverted with the explanation that it needed quotation marks b/c it is a sentence from a textbook. The use of a simple sentence in an educational environment is allowed under US copyright law under the Fair use doctrine. Timhowardriley ( talk) 23:43, 22 June 2024 (UTC)