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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
It's the way it is now. VM pay for licenses on the line cards they use when they want to add more channels too. Makes sense to tie up the other side under licenses as well.
Hell everything seems to be tending towards a licensing/subscription model now.
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It's been that way for ever in the enterprise world but that's dealing with kit that's actually
worth something and often tends to be kept in use 10 years or more.
Doing it on disposable consumer kit is a new one. Sure there's a ton of software moving towards a subscription model but that's software - plus lots of it is renting access to cloud services, not a physical piece of kit. I don't see any vendors offering paid-for feature unlocks for consumer routers, TVs, laptops, or cameras for example. They'd much rather just up-sell you a new piece of equipment.