[mathcad] Re: Mathcad 13 and C_Dilla

Author: Aldo P Solari Posted: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:24:54 +0000

This "C_dilla" debate reminds me of a couple of colleagues who spent
quite a budget in acquiring licenses (Mac+PC) for the
"type-writer-kind-of-mathworx-package-blaehhhj" ...

and a year afterwards they found themselves running the cracked
version because they neither got any further free updates from
"mathworxos" nor any money to buy the rather expensive updates. This
is a tramp.

C_dilla is a tramp, as well and the situation is so ridiculous that
people who bought licenses are working with what I understand is a
C_dilla clean hacked version. An amazing story.

Others crossed over to MAPLE 10.

Others never left the FORTRAN environment and, now, (the iteration
folks) they are lauging at us as they got multi-threading
functionalities, etc.

And the funny thing with all of this is that no protection scheme can
stop the hackers. Bad boys.

Forecasting ?: this matter (out of greed) will go so long that, any
day, in the near future, we will be using the CHICOM_MATHCAD at 10
$/each, programmed by an army of mathematicians such as those who
discovered bad holes in the latest PGP.

Just my opinion.

Cheers!

W/best wishes,

Aldo P. Solari (fisheries biologist)

"asolari" (academic matters)
"aldo.p.solari" (private matters)

Home: www.ulpgc.es/webs/ffresearch-solaris
(U. of) Las Palmas, Canary Islands [12/01/2006, 15:57 GMT]

Original message:

"steven.g.gray" wrote [11/01/2006, 14:52]:

GSG> I agree. Software companies which insist on using software copy
GSG> protection schemes that diddle with the operating system deserve
GSG> to fail. I'd rather be tied to a dongle if the company just has
GSG> to have protection.

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