What's to complain about, you low-life who dared to (AFAIK) never buy TME worth millions of $ from them, and who, to make things worse, dared to "infest" many with a "I like LeCroy" virus?!
I'm an example of your "victims". I always took you to be someone who again and again, intentionally or not, showed a LeCroy scope to be something nice and desirable.
When I bought the first one, there really was nothing brand new with a decent BW and in my price range. I was familiar with the brand and bought a used one. That scope is has many features that you would only find in a high end scope still today. Then again, there are things a cheap modern scope can do that this scope can't. Consider math functions were important for physics. Modern scopes have a lot of digital decoding for example.
Similar here plus "the targeted at research" was attractive to me. But frankly, if someone like you isn't worth (to them) to be treated well I have only a GFY! for them.
We don't appear to do much in the states and guessing the high end market dried up. Companies needed to find some way to be profitable. As they shift their focus to higher volume, lower end test equipment and rebranding, hard to say how it will work out.
To the former I don't comment as that would risk to get (or be taken by some as) "political".
Re the latter, frankly, I think they missed that train. Siglent nowadays is a very acceptable alternative and I strongly doubt that your (or my) region will be able to compete with chinese wages and costs.
Sad, I really liked LeCroy until I found out what a__holes they can be (generally are towards "small fish"?).
On a more serious note: situations like this one are appalling to me. How a largish corporation dares to clearly not give a flying f_ck about a grown up man/customer, no matter whether direct or indirect, who (AFAIK) never uttered anything in any way unfair about them.
One more reason for us to hope and wait for somewhat equivalent alternatives from Siglent and possibly others. And @Siglent, pay attention! There's an important lesson to learn here. Stay the way you are, continue to listen to customers and to treat them well and fair!
A few years ago, a member here had provided details on how to defeat the licensing with their older X-Stream software. There were some comments about LeCroy not letting that slide as they still used that software with some of their current products. And they make money on those licenses. I suspect at least some of their reluctance to remain more open was due to this little episode.
They won't like how (certainly not only) I react to that. "I don't give a flying f_ck about your needs and wants" is an attitude not reserved for LeCroy ...
It's simple: Once I own something I can do - and do - with it whatever I please and I happen to
like "looking" at code (incl. binary) and I also happen to have a not insignificant amount of expertise in crypto.
As long as I don't
sell what I discover they can KMA.
I hope, you somehow get ahold of the firmware you need.
Not unexpected the 5 GHz probes are not listed as an accessory for 2 GHz scopes as the 2.5 GHz active probes cover this range.
Turn it whichever way you want, incl. - probably correctly - assuming that I'm sometimes stupid.
But that won't change the fact that I won't consider Siglent active probes a day earlier then when they have a "probe" section in their "product" main menu.
Although I
like Siglent a lot, I really do.