On 12/22/2011 10:47 AM, Leo Bicknell wrote:
This particular product is often used by the SMB types. This changes things a bit. While I disagree with paying for signature updates you didn't use (It's a service, and I don't care about their fixed costs, I went into it knowing I'd have a license for the signatures as they were expired), I do understand where they are coming from for software/firmware development. Unfortunately, they don't decouple the two. Maybe I'm just a grinch, but I think they could fix this problem. If they set the software in the box so that on the day your subscription expires it no longer processes the subscription data
In a message written on Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:26:56PM -0600, PC wrote: there would be a lot less issue.
At that point why should they sell iron at all? Seems like you get all of the downside of owning the iron, and all of the downside of paying for a cloud based service. Either you own what you own, or you pay for service that somebody else provides. This "you bought useless hardware unless you pay up" is really what's infuriating. Mike