[whataretensors]

Additionally there is lots of software written 5-10 years ago making tons of money today where the original authors get none of it.

[ryanwaggoner]

There’s probably an order of magnitude more software that was written 5-10 years ago that lost money but the software devs were still paid for.

[whataretensors]

Yes but the loss is linear while the gains are often exponents. I bet the integral of each would make the 'lost money' nearly insignificant.

[ryanwaggoner]

Well, yeah. Otherwise there’d be little incentive to risk that money. And you wouldn’t call those losses insignificant if it was your money :)