I would have to agree with this. In the days when .NET was top dog and GitHub was not still a thing people spent insane amounts of money for libs that would sav

I would have to agree with this. In the days when .NET was top dog and GitHub was not still a thing people spent insane amounts of money for libs that would save them time. Per client, per developer, per "seat", per core, anything you can think of someone charged for it. Telerik is the one that comes to mind, but they mostly did dev-oriented stuff. The pay-more-once scheme always seemed the most easy choice for companies I worked for, as they wanted to be able to sell products that they couldn't easily keep charging for after the sale.