"multiple vendors, but only one of them is nice enough to give the product away for free" is not "effectively single-vendor".

The other CAs aren't prohibitively priced for anyone who has a business need for lots of certificates, in case Let's Encrypt disappears or goes rogue.

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ZeroConcerns 30 minutes ago | parent [-]

> other CAs aren't prohibitively priced

Not if you look at the per-cert pricing, but if you factor in the cost of "dealing with incompetent sales" and "convincing accounting to keep the contract going", they absolutely are.

	▲	toast0 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		When I was working with Digicert a decade ago, it was expensive, but they also had knowledgable support and with a wildcard cert, they would issue all sorts of 'custom duplicates' by request that were super handy. No incompetent sales, but certainly you do need to make sure accounting will pay.