yes, and i'm searching for this guy. Like morpheus searched for neo ... *lol*
rigol would not be so popular without their good hardware and software. and i don't think professional companies that order quantities of this scopes go for a 1054 and patch the licenses for a 1104, they buy the real one at first. the hobbiists that patch their equipment are only somewhere between 5% - 10% of the entire customers of rigol. And, as Microsoft realized, these people are good for the company because they like what they get and spread this opinion to others, f.e. their bosses, friends, relatives ...
so, after all, it's a good deal for rigol.
I do not think they were able to sell 100MHz scopes for the price of 50MHz scopes when they lose money doing this, so the entire hardware/software is refinanced by the smaller price.
Every good finance planner / analyst knows this aspects and uses it in his calculations.