> Paying all these engineers to write that code was expensive, and now you want to give it all away for free? Most companies never do that for anything, why would they make an exception?
I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but I've been doing professional software development for more than twenty years and have never encountered this. There's plenty of "we should be paid for our work and innovation" but nothing so reflexive as what you describe here.
I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but I've been doing professional software development for more than twenty years and have never encountered this. There's plenty of "we should be paid for our work and innovation" but nothing so reflexive as what you describe here.
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