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		jlouis on Aug 23, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Aaron Swartz: How To Launch Software Isn't that a subset relation? webapps are a subset of software. So interchange only works in a single direction.

etal on Aug 23, 2008 [–]

Maybe more like an intersection: web apps contain software, but the software isn't usually what's being sold; the user community, collected data and marketing/branding of the original site are a bigger deal than in shrink-wrap or contract software.

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