It's a common marketing practice

It's a common marketing practice

Posted Apr 4, 2008 0:46 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: It's a common marketing practice by gdt
Parent article: A creative example of the value of free drivers

These days, even turning a screwdriver is pretty expensive, so this kind of price discrimination is done with cryptographic keys -- you pay your money and the vendor emails you a key that brings the dormant or underutilized hardware to life.

Sometimes you can downgrade again later too.

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