>Until then, it will still be available for the whole world to use, just for a small licensing fee
They don't appear to be selling right to use licenses. Most of the text on their site suggests a cloud based service, which I suspect will be usage based.
All that to say it is perhaps too soon to judge the end user cost as small. Maybe it will be, maybe not.
But my point in this case is that if they hadn't patented it and be pushing it we wouldn't even be talking about this. It promotes it OR alternatives.
The impact on consumers is positive even if they only get meager access for 20 years. (For example the patent owner could just be bad at economics and set their price too high, thinking they would get more profit than via wide adoption: they might not set it at the monopolist's profit-maximizing price point.)
Even so, everyone gets it after a while (20 years.)
They don't appear to be selling right to use licenses. Most of the text on their site suggests a cloud based service, which I suspect will be usage based.
All that to say it is perhaps too soon to judge the end user cost as small. Maybe it will be, maybe not.