They're not the same thing. If I buy a computer, you can say "if you want to use adobe software you have to pay an adobe license fee", you cannot say "if you wa

They're not the same thing. If I buy a computer, you can say "if you want to use adobe software you have to pay an adobe license fee", you cannot say "if you want to use WiFi you need to pay for a license to the firmware for the hardware in your machine."