It's even worse than that: each customer not only get a full different
program, but installed it (with variations) on billions of computers
(most cells get a full copy, initially).

As cells divide, each copy mutates and get truncated or duplicated code.
Statically, it's the same program... in theory. In practice, the
survival is only based on the ability of the new program to still
duplicate the cell.

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Software is like dirt - it costs time and money to change it and move it
around.

Just because you can't see it, it doesn't weigh anything,
and you can't drill a hole in it and stick a rivet into it doesn't mean
it's free.

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