Complete nonsense. After creating a hit song, does a team of singer come along and maintain it and add features? Does yet another team build the next version of that song? Or that movie? Or that painting? Or whatever artistic work?

The logistics if the software industry are nothing like the music or movie industry. This post is absurd.

And further, to claim anyone "deserves" a royalty is ridiculous. I know a developer who is quite rich off of a software residual deal. He did not deserve it. He negotiated for it and earned it. Good for him!

I love the idea of working a royalty deal as a developer and hope more devs can pull it off profitably, but it would obviously have to entail getting paid less to nothing up front, similar to a starting musician. Risk vs reward. The ultimate balance.