> And it's not "a piece of software for 60k" but likely "a bunch of specialized pieces of software" Right but my question still stands, which is that I wonder

> And it's not "a piece of software for 60k" but likely "a bunch of specialized pieces of software" Right but my question still stands, which is that I wonder how much of that total, summed from all the pieces, is rent seeking or profit extraction. AKA what is the markup on this and how much of it is going to pay high returns to VC firms. I say this because I work in open source farming automation and I am particularly interested in lowering costs through open source.