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Re: RSI is a money thirsty beast!! [message #2258 is a reply to message #2252]

Tue, 14 June 1994 08:20

cvb
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In article <ghsu-unstable.771181527@nswc.navy.mil> ghsu%unstable@nswc.navy.mil (Guan-Hsong Hsu) writes:
> Hi, There,
> I have just found out that RSI requires each individual users of
> IDL to send in $200 to register in order to get technical support.
> Here's what they say :
>
> ...
>>
> using IDL, I have seen the price of a license going up and up.
> Restrictions on usage get worse. RSI has turned from a small,
> technically oriented outfit into this horrible money sucking beast.
> It is really sad. Is Visual Numeric just as $$ thirsty?
> Mathworks is perhaps just as bad. Every little toolbox costs $K.
> But at least they don't require each user to pay in order to get
> support. Maybe they are all just as bad.

RSI is THE most competitive (& competent) alternative out there isn't it?
Everyone else charges you yearly fees just to use the old software you
bought ages ago.

> I think we need a GNU version of IDL/Matlab clone!

Amen. This is a sad situation.

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		Re: RSI is a money thirsty beast!! By: jwbruce on Wed, 15 June 1994 11:19
		Re: RSI is a money thirsty beast!! By: harmonic on Tue, 14 June 1994 13:04
		Re: RSI is a money thirsty beast!! By: cvb on Tue, 14 June 1994 08:20
		Re: RSI is a money thirsty beast!! By: Utermann[1] on Mon, 13 June 1994 02:01
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