Cautionary tale: A friend and his co-founders developed a product and then sold it (and their company) to a large company with the agreement that they would get a percent of sales of "their" product. Their product (call it "Product A") sold for something like $20K a license. What the acquiring company did was to bundle it with their own $20K product ("Product B") only now they charged $40K for Product B and gave away Product A (when purchased with Product B) so they wouldn't have to pay the product creators their cut.
Happy ending: My friend and his colleagues eventually got their money in arbitration.
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Cautionary tale: A friend and his co-founders developed a product and then sold it (and their company) to a large company with the agreement that they would get a percent of sales of "their" product. Their product (call it "Product A") sold for something like $20K a license. What the acquiring company did was to bundle it with their own $20K product ("Product B") only now they charged $40K for Product B and gave away Product A (when purchased with Product B) so they wouldn't have to pay the product creators their cut.
Happy ending: My friend and his colleagues eventually got their money in arbitration.