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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by zimpenfish on Thursday December 08, 2022 @11:28AM (#33909762)
> What other profession expects to be paid for producing work and expects to keep the result of the work?

There are, I believe, a non-negligible number of companies who will write software for you, to a specification, and grant you a (sometimes non-exclusive) license to use that software but absolutely will not give you the copyright. Pretty sure there's a lot of IT companies, for example, that UKGOV contract to which do this.

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by Gigachad on Thursday December 08, 2022 @03:55PM (#33913265)
Because they are exploiting incompetent government processes.

Get the tax payer to pay you to build a product and then continue looting the public to rent it out perpetually.

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