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Johannes Ernst

Is there a geographical boundary to the use of plural for the term "software"?

In other words, do "softwares" exist outside of Europe?

27 January at 0:49 | Open on social.coop
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Łukasz Wójcik 👨‍💻 📷

@J12t in Poland we have 'oprogramowanie' which works the same as English 'software'. Except our term was invented strictly for the purpose of IT and it doesn't have non-IT origins such as 'something that is not hardware and you can't kick or punch it'.

27 January at 0:53 | Open on hachyderm.io
Ben Pate 🤘🏻

@J12t No. there is only one software. It is global. And it is beautiful.

27 January at 1:09 | Open on mastodon.social
Johannes Ernst

@benpate I can agree with you on the two first points. But the last one???

27 January at 1:29 | Open on social.coop
James M.

@J12t (US) I've always thought of the word "software" as a collective noun, like "water".

27 January at 1:10 | Open on sfba.social
Tanguy ⧓ Herrmann

@J12t in french, software has been named "logiciel". It would roughly translate as "logic system".
As such, it can be pluralized as it is a unit of logic system, which would correspond in a way to an "app".

27 January at 10:21 | Open on hachyderm.io
Tim Kellogg
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