Software is active, data is passive. Ref #15

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understanding and documenting the differences between software and data in the context of citation

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Software is active, data is passive. Ref #15 #16

Closed tompollard closed 8 years ago

tompollard commented 8 years ago

As discussed in #15, I think a functional way of distinguishing between software and data is to say that software is active, while data is passive. This pull request adds this proposed distinction to the README.