[gxt]

What if the DRM/license was based around offering binaries built with 8/16/32/64 bit limits in data types and max records per table, each being its own edition and priced accordingly? Eg yearly license of $8/160/3,200/640,000.

[flockonus]

It's very creative! LOL But in practice most my tables that are uncapped end up with IDs are 64bits and i suspect not being the only one.. 32b is in fact quite small ~ 4B rows.

[saurik]

And so you would pay for the largest tier as it sounds like you have big data needs? ;P Whereas my company--which only had tens of millions of users and millions of dollars a year in revenue--certainly never had any tables with more than 4 billion rows... (not that I think this licensing model works or makes any sense at all, to be clear).