Reply #2: Anyone that programs knows that source code is the most ephemeral

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of things, changeable as can be. And yet they insist on treating it like it was engraved in steel plates so they can pretend it is a form of "property" like land or an automobile. Unless you give it physical form, a printout, it is even more ephemeral than a book, you can change it any way you like and nobody can tell what you did or why you did it.