You wrote, "it's more akin to realizing that software is much more like art or music"
Exactly Microsoft's point. You can see how a company that invested mucho dinero into designing, creating, and selling a #1 hit song (app) would never bother to do it again if another company could pay kids minimum wage (or no wage) and repro (ripoff) the music (software) for squat.
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You wrote, "it's more akin to realizing that software is much more like art or music"
Exactly Microsoft's point. You can see how a company that invested mucho dinero into designing, creating, and selling a #1 hit song (app) would never bother to do it again if another company could pay kids minimum wage (or no wage) and repro (ripoff) the music (software) for squat.