According to http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_softwares_are_developed_or_engineered

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According to http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_softwares_are_developed_or_engineered_but_not_manufactured, "Software is developed or engineered; it is not manufactured in the classical sense.
Although some similarities exist between software development and hardware manufacture, the two activities are fundamentally different. In both activities, high quality is achieved through good design, but the manufacturing phase for hardware can introduce quality problems that are nonexistent (or easily corrected) for software."

"Both activities are dependent on people, but the relationship between people applied and work accomplished is entirely different. Both activities require the construction of a "product" but the approaches are different."

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Saying that something is manufactured means that it is created, 'from the ground up', from nothing. And that certain chemical/physical processes are used to create it.

Software has NO physical form. It is computer code, instructions for an operating system (something else without physical form). A computer program is kind of like a story, something else without physical form. Although it is easy to memorize a short story, it is darn near impossible to memorize computer code. People who write computer programs use nothing of a physical process to create the software. They simply use words/letters to create the code. The finished code is called 'software'. Sometimes the software is an operating system, a program, a widget, or simply 'code'.

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