This is true when breaking new ground, but it’s a rare occurrence. Most business problems are a few thousand years old. Yes, there were taxes paid in the ancient world.
They weren't solving hard realtime nonlinear control for hardware running on a custom ASIC in a domain only a literal handful of companies even operate in.
Not everything has been solved for ten thousand years.
Most solutions to business problems are proprietary, not open source.
Tax rules depend on an interaction between national and local laws that can change from year to year based on the ruling government. You can't just take tax rules from ancient Rome to generate 2024 tax software for Quebec, Canada.
