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software

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UK /ˈsɒftweə(r)/US /ˈsɔːftwer/
noun

the programs used by a computer for doing particular jobs

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So uh, and that was really the basis of Zip 2, and we ended up building quite a bit of software for the media industry—primarily the print media industry.

Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture

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Every country is very well aware, so we did this software, which displays it like this: every bubble here is a country.

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Of you out there in the audience today with such creativity—and our industry needs you—fourth this truth never changes: software sells hardware; people buy game systems to play the games.

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