another fact from my memory, while i can't remember the name of the movie i just saw, intersystems of cambridge ma and partner of epic healthcare....they said they used borland delphi objects, but again no more. they didn't change their ip? so, i hope they started paying vcsy. they are a partner of msft at least thru epic...msft having a perpetual license for v 744, but cannot relicense to other.
since it seems self service is the new modality in vogue for cost savings in business organization, those organizations might all need their own licenses for all the v ip patents/pendings including social network/ploinks and puddle/521/mle/etc. 8 could also serve as the network which allows the ip , perhaps even in the form of webrtc, which is 'software' between the two 'peers'? wags.
this same peering network is also potentially the base of msft/nvidia cloud based supercomputer ai network of connected/networked distributeds assets....patented by 8 and v ip. thinking elon musks' biggest rocket in the world flight was captured digitally with it's digital twin.....how many data points? can't enough conceive. wags.