Feature request: option for monthly payment

[immanuelfodor]

Counting power cycles might not be ideal for some environments with frequent power outages as the licence would expire too often and that would probably result in angry refund requests. Also, in enviromnents where a CPU runs almost forever without a power cycle, for example, in data centers, the licence would effectively turn into a one-time purchase. I think a higher customer lifetime value could be achieved with a monthly payment system. "Pay as you game!", "Rent your own CPU for as low as $5/mo" - there are lots of marketing opportunities here to unlock.

Another idea: consider achieving even more granularity of payments by applying the same technique in a per-core model.

[zorrobyte]

Here's a better idea, why just not put this garbage into hardware in the first place?

[phorcys420]

I think we should move it to a CaaS system (CPU as-a-service) where your CPU would be somewhere else in the world and use internet to communicate to the socket using a separate Intel Box:tm: directly from Intel's CPUServer

[immanuelfodor]

Could be standardized as CoF - CPU over Fiber

[immanuelfodor]

As @dpmabo suggested in #2 (comment) it could be branded as Xeon365 😃