[bsenftner]

In the early 2000's I was seeking to license some ML software that performed 3D reconstruction, similar to photogrammetry, but specific to being accurate for 3D versions of people. In the forensics and medical fields there are companies creating these types of trained algorithms for their industry's needs, and the quality of what they produce is acceptable as a starting point to create a 3D model of an person that looks like the real person. However, every single company I located providing any useful piece of software wanted a piece of my company, or they wanted a revenue share of anything my company sold. I found outside of "traditional software" there is another software industry where the developers are integrating themselves into industries as key suppliers, never selling their (surprisingly simple and basic) software, but licensing to companies that pay them for every single use - as if the software were a person being paid for every use.