I'm just a programmer, and it's up to the management at Blazie Tech to decide how and when to charge consumers: whether its upfront costs or in subscriptions or other payments down the track. When the idea of subscriptions was explained to me, the idea was that all users would still get bug fixes, and subscription users would get new features. And, this last release was also released to all customers too (subscribed or not). Oh, and linux updates are not gated in any way.
I have no idea what countries receive our devices... and FYI I'm based in Sydney, Oz (along with another of the devs), and from what I've seen the support of blazie products is far and away better than other companies products I've used. Everyone who works at the company including the owners are active on the mailing lists, customers get to speak to real people when they have a problem, and we're all working to constantly improve the product.

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