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Remembering how the major applications (Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Database, etc.) for the BBC Micro were in ROM set me thinking.
If software companies supplied their applications (or even OSs) on read-only SD cards which had uncopyable sections, piracy would be very difficult, "installation" would be a thing of the past and with the cost of today's SD card readers, a PC could be equipped with a dozen or more. Added slots could be available via USB add-on units. We could forget stupidities like "the registry", invented by Microsoft to help reduce piracy and yet creating a single point of failure - something I, as a trained electronic engineer (turned software developer), had always been encouraged to avoid.