This is the nature of Licensing. Welcome to the party. It sucks no matter what the actual issue is. For instance, it’s possible that HP is actually Licensing these features themselves and it’s required by their upstream manufacturer of the backplane chip to license each individual user for iLO. You never know with this BS.
You don’t own your hardware. You especially don’t own your software. I don’t know what the FOSS alternative would be unless there was like a libreBootserver with a libreILO type firmware.
This is a pathetic thing to do and I do not want anyone to think it is in any shape or form OK, acceptable or tolerable. Hardware is the money maker, not this bullshit. The server cost ~40k at the time, this license bollocks is a few hundred over the years. The inconvenience introduced will not, ever, pay off in the long run.
This is the nature of Licensing. Welcome to the party. It sucks no matter what the actual issue is. For instance, it’s possible that HP is actually Licensing these features themselves and it’s required by their upstream manufacturer of the backplane chip to license each individual user for iLO. You never know with this BS.
You don’t own your hardware. You especially don’t own your software. I don’t know what the FOSS alternative would be unless there was like a libreBootserver with a libreILO type firmware.
I know what you mean and I fully agree.
But.
This is a pathetic thing to do and I do not want anyone to think it is in any shape or form OK, acceptable or tolerable. Hardware is the money maker, not this bullshit. The server cost ~40k at the time, this license bollocks is a few hundred over the years. The inconvenience introduced will not, ever, pay off in the long run.
You’re not wrong.