Thats easy. Its costs time to make a software thing once. Then once done, copying is basically 0 cost, and storage is near 0 cost, and bandwidth is near 0 cost

Thats easy. Its costs time to make a software thing once. Then once done, copying is basically 0 cost, and storage is near 0 cost, and bandwidth is near 0 cost. If I make furniture, it costs resources for each thing I make. I can't copy a sofa 10e6 times for negligible costs. Its also why "Shit as a service" is so popular in the commercial world. Selling the tool is a fools game - you sell access to a rental of the tool. Then you get recurring income, and can fuck over people who are firmly in your ecosystem.