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Imagine you buy a licence for Microsoft Office, you make a word document, share it with friends/colleagues and you are charged a penny for every single time someone downloads that document on their device.

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kicksystem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
That’s only fair if I am making three pennies for every single time someone downloads that document. Microsoft Office made it possible and so the deserve a share.

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- CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Sounds like you’re describing every newspaper, blogger, and scientist (who release scientific papers).
  
  Does a race car driver who wins a race have to pay some extra money back to the auto manufacturer of his car?
  
  Your logic is flawed. People buy a tool, and then what they do with the tool after that is up to them, and not the person who made the tool. Unless you want to go back and rewrite the gun laws?
  
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  - kicksystem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Unity isn’t only a tool. Unity is also an ingredient. It’s shipped with the product and is an integral part of what makes the product work. Most OEM deal out there also depend on usage.
    
    You want to ship a product with Neo4j (or any other software developer) under the hood? Go make an OEM deal with Neo4j and I’ll bet you it is going to be some deal that will be proportional to the amount of usage your product is going to get. Which is only fair of course.
    
    Your race car driver analogy makes no sense by the way. A developer makes a product and that product is shipped many times to a lot of people. You could think of Unity as a pizza bottom and a pizza oven. The developer puts stuff on top, bakes it in the oven and then it is shipped to people. The developer has to pay for the pizza bottom and the cost of the tool will be discounted. The developer charges a price such that after subtracting the cost of the pizza bottom there will be a nice profit. Profit and cost will be proportional to the amount of pizza’s eaten.
    
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    CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    Your race car driver analogy makes no sense by the way. A developer makes a product and that product is shipped many times to a lot of people.
    
    Well a car manufacturer makes a car and then sells it to a rental company and many rental car company customers use that car.
    
    I’d say the analogy holds.
    
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