They don't own the raw materials. In programming there rarely are raw materials in that sense. The comparison is silly. Under US law commissioned works may "be

They don't own the raw materials. In programming there rarely are raw materials in that sense. The comparison is silly. Under US law commissioned works may "belong" to the commissioner. Under German law, for example, they don't, unless that's explicitly part of the contract. If anything, software is comparable to other commissioned works like art, literature or architecture.