companies take our stuff, build it into a product, and then make a zillion dollars and give us nothing. It seems fair that they'd give us some kind of royalty, right? Some tiny fraction of that windfall? But once you realize that individual developers don't have the authority to put $50 on a corporate card to buy a tool, they super don't have the authority to make a technical decision that encumbers the intellectual property of their entire core product to give some fraction of the company's revenue away to a third party.