It sounds like these companies need to license their product so another company cannot enhance or modify the software and resell it. I don’t know the legal fram

It sounds like these companies need to license their product so another company cannot enhance or modify the software and resell it. I don’t know the legal framework well enough to know how difficult that is, but it sounds like that’s what companies have started doing. On a side note - the NYT has a piece on any one of the tech companies about every single day. No doubt these companies do questionable things, but I question the Times motives and biases when they’re focused so much on one industry or a handful of companies. I spent almost two decades working in oil and gas before shifting my career to software in 2012. I don’t recall a time when the the Times was hyper focused on my industry then. Not that it excuses FB or Amazons behavior, but I do believe the Times has a personal interest in seeing these companies fail, as they compete with the Times.