Donald ClarkCough @pluralistic #enshittification example HP #hewlettpackard printer
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Sharkie@dsc @pluralistic Randomly interesting to me: HP was one of the first companies to do this sort of thing. There was a time, long ago, when you would purchase large HP-UX boxes (pre-Superdome) that would have hardware inside that was "unlicensed," and thus disabled. To use that "hardware feature," you'd have to pay a fee (and sometimes a rolling subscription!). They did the same with their software.
Bob Thomson@pluralistic @dsc @sekka Sun did it too as ‘capacity on demand’ https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19095-01/sfe6900.srvr/819-5088-10/cod.html
@bobthomson70 @pluralistic @dsc Sun was my bag, from the IPC days onward. (I still own an old 670MP :) They were a bit less gross about it, I felt, but ... it's all a matter of perspective. Storage also has been doing this since at least the era of SANs. (And don't even get me started on EMC)
@pluralistic @sekka @dsc indeed. Paid my bills from the mid 90s to 2010 or so working Solaris abs SANs :)
@bobthomson70 @pluralistic @dsc Same here! ^_^ Although I have to acknowledge Linux in there, too. (HPUX, AIX, Irix, FreeBSD, digital unix, even SCO were also-rans) I used my time in tech to keep my aviation bills paid until I was finally able to transition to flying full-time in 2013. That said, I still do tech on the side.
Don't call me crusty—dragons don't get old, we just get bigger. ;p
@pluralistic @dsc @sekka same aye, all those *NIXes and Oracle DBA at times too, and last decade or so all linux and last most of the decade VMs, Docker and now k8s and all cloud the past 5. These days it’s all YAML wrangling. As a contractor you have to keep up with what your market wants really.
@sekka Interestingly, an old work pal of mine who does DBA often talks of looking into becoming a pilot. An expensive and difficult business, well done achieving that!