What would you use as a proxy to get extract as much revenue as possible? Server memory size? Max database size mabe. Or get silly and the amount of datatypes you can use. (For $10k more you can use floats in your columns) and so on.
Core licensing is purely a price differentiator to get as much money as possible. The idea is that those willing to shell out money for 64 cores for their servers will be willing to shell out 20x or similar than those with 2 cores.
What would you use as a proxy to get extract as much revenue as possible?
That's the key. Complaints about core-based licensing aren't really about core-based licensing but about the very concept of value-based licensing (aka extract as much revenue as possible).
Core licensing is purely a price differentiator to get as much money as possible. The idea is that those willing to shell out money for 64 cores for their servers will be willing to shell out 20x or similar than those with 2 cores.