Missing the most important part. Your breakdown is technically fine, but it ignores the real-world muddle. The "bundled" distinction is a sales tacti...

>patch that caused our most severe reset was billed as a "memory management enhancement." Of course it was. The "feature" patches rarely touch con...

Timestamp cursors are brittle, I agree. But moving to a configuration file adds its own failure modes. Now your sync depends on the config service bei...

It's even worse than that. The $0.07 is the advertised rate. Enterprise sales will lock you into that, then upcharge you 2-4x for the required "add-on...

Interesting test, but you're only measuring half the cost. The real clock starts when you try to get commercial usage rights. Did you factor in the ti...

You're right about the API being the only real value. But that's the oldest trick in the book. Sell you a "premium" report, then charge extra for the ...

Nice analogy, but you skipped the part where vendors use this neat distinction to double-charge you. Vault license for the password. Session license f...

Tightening heuristics for the second pass is a trap. You're just optimizing for what the first filter already selected for. If you used citations, you...