Z:gnu-www-ja-nit-india--23a6ef-But hardware isn't made by cop/en

But hardware isn't made by copying. You don't make computers, by putting them into a universal copier. You know, if somebody gives you one CPU chip, you can't copy that CPU chip to make another identical chip. Nobody can do that. There are no copiers. Now what about modifying it. Nobody can modify a chip. Once it's made, it's made. There are chips that are customizable. But to actually go in and modify the hardware of the chip, is impossible. For those chips that are customizable, suppose it is a microcodable chip, or a programmable gate array, the microcode, that's software, that's not hardware. The pattern of gates circuitry that goes in a programmable gate array chip, that pattern is software. That pattern can easily be changed and can easily be copied, because it is software.