Re: Brother MFC dead after power cycle?

Joel Koltner wrote:
"Rich Webb" <bbew.ar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:io5mp49ifjuevv2ofj1u7fkbbnjbamd4g2@xxxxxxxxxx
Thought that began with version 11? Which, coincidentally, is when I
stopped upgrading; negative marginal value. Still happily using 2001i.

Probably was 11 -- I didn't have that version. (I went from 2001 to 12 to 14.)

MathCAD is interesting in that the price you pay seems to vary an order of magnitude depending on how much money PTC thinks they can get from you.


Isn't that called "value added marketing"? Whenever a price isn't clearly stated but you are urged to call a "value added reseller" that raises my hackles. Usually meaning that I won't buy. With hardware I've even seen vendor mark-up, IOW they charge a price well _above_ the one listed on the mfg's web site. Of course that also resulted in a decline on my part.


I keep hoping to have the time to switch to something like Maple or Mathematica one of these days -- they both have Linux versions, and at least in the academic versions Maple doesn't cost any more than MathCAD.


There are a couple of GPL mathematics programs. However, unfortunately universities get suckered into MatLab and such, probably they are offered really sweet deals. I guess that's one way to achieve vendor-lock.

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