Comment by ricardobeat

> look around you, pick a thing, imagine a world where the price you paid for that thing hinged on your personal individual success with that thing

YCombinator. Unreal Engine. CryEngine. FMOD. Steam, App stores in general. Qt.

+ 90% of enterprise software that charges per seat / user.

You could argue that most of these provide ongoing services, but that will also be the case if you license one of their models commercially, contracts come with strings attached both ways.