Subscription vs Software - What's the difference?
subscription | software |
access to a resource for a period of time.
the formal acceptance of something, especially when verified with a signature
the signing of one's name
(computing) Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM). Compare hardware.
* 1958 , John W. Tukey, "The Teaching of Concrete Mathematics" in The American Mathematical Monthly , vol. 65, no. 1 (Jan. 1958), pp 1-9:
* 1995 , Paul Niquette, Softword: Provenance for the Word ‘Software’ :
As nouns the difference between subscription and software
is that subscription is access to a resource for a period of time while software is encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM). Compare hardware.subscription
English
Noun
(en noun)- I have a monthly subscription to The Daily Telegraph newspaper.
- My library subscription is about to expire.
software
English
Noun
(-)- The "software " comprising the carefully planned interpretive routines, compilers, and other aspects of automative programming are at least as important to the modern electronic calculator as its "hardware" of tubes, transistors, wires, tapes and the like.
- As originally conceived, the word "software " was merely an obvious way to distinguish a program from the computer itself. A program comprised sequences of changeable instructions each having the power to command the behavior of the permanently crafted machinery, the "hardware."