[blakes]

MS has done the same thing, they all saw the writing on the wall a few years ago.

MS licensing is complicated, but you must buy a minimum of 16 cores, then you get license packs for additional cores.

[jagger27]

My grey market Windows Server 2019 Standard (with Hyper-V) key happily activated on my 48-core system. What's the proper way to buy a license?