[sidewndr46]

Perhaps it reflects my upbringing, but my general assumption is any product requires some unadvertised secondary purchase to function unless I can prove otherwise. Those items usually have much higher profit margins and thus businesses are motivated to use this 'model' where the original product is not fully functional without a secondary purchase.

[inetknght]

> Perhaps it reflects my upbringing, but my general assumption is any product requires some unadvertised secondary purchase to function unless I can prove otherwise.

Perhaps it is your upbringing indeed. My own upbringing, however, suggests that all things should work out-of-the-box but perhaps with "minimal functionality". For example, your computer should work great out-of-the-box but you can install additional hardware and/or software to do more.