Oscilloscope options are famous for being trivial to enable, and I think Rigol finally did the right thing by just selling the scopes "pre-hacked", enabling the

Oscilloscope options are famous for being trivial to enable, and I think Rigol finally did the right thing by just selling the scopes "pre-hacked", enabling the options that everyone was gonna enable on their own within minutes of unboxing the thing anyway. Debates rage endlessly about whether the manufacturer is in the right to lock-out certain features or sell low-end scopes at a loss or a zillion other business questions. But the fact of the matter is, the clientele for this particular product is _hardware engineers_, and hardware engineers seem to take a stronger view than most, that if they bought it, they own it, they're going to use it. Particularly in the case of this old Tek that hasn't been sold in decades, I think anything that keeps it out of the solid waste stream is great.