> distribution and manufacturing costs are zero.

???? citation needed

Once the software is written, it is ~free to copy. People pay a lot of money to avoid the software getting copied... and it gets copied anyways.

	▲	stevefan1999 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The thing is that one software is easy to crack and copy, so it is cheap...but a lot of softwares to work together is not, so that's why we have SaaS and PaaS today.