Equipment Bond for Software?

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I'm going to say that Equipment Bond and Weapon Bond are totally designed to work with hardware, that is, with physical objects, each of which has a unique identity and a unique instantiation, however subtle the differences are. The conditions don't obtain for software, so you can't port them over to software.

That's not to say you can't come up with a comparable perk for software. But it should be written up in a way that (a) makes sense for the way software works and (b) requires some serious effort to get a new Bond if the old one is terminated. I'm not expert enough with software to define the relevant conditions. I would suggest that a place to look is at the distinctive places where you actually "lose" your familiar software in a permanent way, as opposed to being temporarily inconvenienced.

But in any case let's call it something different. Maybe Customized Software would be a suitable name, or maybe not.

Bill Stoddard