Labels:bed | book | cushion | earth | frisbee | hakham | shelf | sky | stairs | step OCR: Com pute. 50 ftwa re Are computer programs data and software the same thing? Softwar is a basic ped a computer systerm but "software' IC term that t has more than one definition. .In the early days of the computer industry became popular to use the term "software for all the non- hardware components of computer. In this context software referred to computer pro- grams pue to the used Aq the programs The U.S Copyright Act 0 1980 defines software as set staterments or instructions to be used directly or indirectly computer in order to bring about certain result This definition implies that computer software essentially the same comp uter program It also implies that collectior of data such list of dictionar words not software In practice the term "software' 'is usually used to describe acomm ...
