&gt; I mean, it&#x27;s not like you are building &quot;the whole product,&quot; you are just building some feature.<p>If slavery was still legal, you&#x27;d better fucking believe that the corporation that owned you would be suing other corporations over getting a percent of the revenue for some work you did.<p>But alas, you are just a person, and as such you don&#x27;t get to write laws and international trade agreements, so your contributions to a product aren&#x27;t litigated over.