Yearly Fees for Support of Compilers

[Joel Plutchak]

   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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