I buy a lot of Keysight equipment for work. Most of the options and upgrades are one time purchases. Sometimes the option requires an actual hardware change, other times it just unlocks the full capability of that some subsystem. There's also software applications you can purchase or subscribe to along with various features you can spend money on.
Everything has a different price, it's absolutely insane how they decide it. If you want a subscription, it costs about the same for 2 years as it does to just purchase the license. But wait, do you want a permanently locked node license or a transportable license? The node locked one is a bit cheaper. Why? Because then you can't salvage your software from a broken unit and install it on a working one, silly.
They'd prefer you just subscribe to everything because then you'll pay less money than if you fully purchased a unit from a competitor.
Everything has a different price, it's absolutely insane how they decide it. If you want a subscription, it costs about the same for 2 years as it does to just purchase the license. But wait, do you want a permanently locked node license or a transportable license? The node locked one is a bit cheaper. Why? Because then you can't salvage your software from a broken unit and install it on a working one, silly.
They'd prefer you just subscribe to everything because then you'll pay less money than if you fully purchased a unit from a competitor.