You would pay not for copying but for creation. A software developer would be paid for solving new problems or customizing known solutions to them. Pretending to "sell" shrinkwrapped information is stupid nonsense.
It seems to me that removing that interesting feature of software moves developers closer to what I generally hear described as serfdom, "wage slave", etc.
Pretending to "sell" shrinkwrapped information is stupid nonsense.
Care to elaborate?
After all, software is precisely what has helped the information flow faster and better. In a rapidly evolving, copyright-free world, custom software is king.