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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 4682504" data-attributes="member: 360">Okay, your DVD player undoubtedly has a chip in it specifically designed to decode DVD movies. If you play a DVD on your computer, a program is likely accomplishing the exact same task. Why is the work of the electrical engineer who designed the chip worth more than the work of the software engineer who wrote the program?And this isn't an odd case at all. There's a wide range of applications that can be done with either hardware or software, and often are done either way. And as a software guy, albeit not an embedded system guy, I'm inclined to think the software is at least as valuable as the hardware, even though it's not a tangible good.</blockquote>