>>> "ESF" == Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Thursday, 17 Jun 2021 at 18:33, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>> [1]  truth being told, a lot of mathematicians and I think physicists
>> don't upgrade very frequently so it might have been a
>> compatibility issue.  

> Funnily enough, just in the past hour or so, I ended up in panic
> mode.  I rely on one commercial software (not by choice).  I knew I had
> an up to date licence but the software insisted that I did not have a
> licence.  Turns out that the actual software itself was umpteen years
> old and I needed a newer version of the software (which I could
> download) to use with the updated licence (and of course the old licence
> had expired).

> Downloaded new version and everything is working.


I wonder what that software might be ;-)


> However, I work on a "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" approach.  And
> that's why I don't like commercial closed software reason #381.

> Time for a beer. ;-)

Cheers