Now we can only expense a small fraction of that because we have to capitalize the expense. This is how other businesses have always had to treat the work prod

Now we can only expense a small fraction of that because we have to capitalize the expense. This is how other businesses have always had to treat the work product of their IP generated from R&D... Software businesses were exploiting a loophole, which was fine when they were limiting themselves to their own turf. When they started encroaching into and destroying other industries, it no longer made sense to keep this loophole in place. So basically, the software industry has only itself to blame for this.