[tenebrisalietum]

Work once, get paid once is the model that most drives efficiency and innovation. If an entity is getting paid without working or innovating (work once, get paid forever), they have no reason to further work or innovate. This hampers the progress of science and the useful arts instead of furthering it.

[colejohnson66]

ARM continues to innovate (“work”). They release new core IPs every year. It’s gotten to the point that companies stopped making their own implementations and just license ARM’s versions.