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Yeah so ultimately this means source code isn't considered an asset, but rather an integral part of a product that has been sold. This is how it should have been all along. It's the fundamental point of the free software movement. It's also how it was in the beginning, before companies like Microsoft realised they could use law and technical means to sell knowledge as a product. I hope one day we can go back to this and look back at this funny time when people made us think knowledge was a product.