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From: plutchak@pilsner.geo.brown.edu (Joel Plutchak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Yearly Fees for Support of Compilers
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Date: 5 Jun 91 14:17:00 GMT
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   Paying yearly support fees for *any* piece of commercial software (or
hardware, for that matter) is commonplace.  Such support fees not only pay
for bug fixes, but for technical support, extensions/improvements, etc.

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Joel Plutchak, Research Programmer/Analyst
Brown University Planetary Geology
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