When I last visited India, there were many places where the air was smokey from cow dung used as the fuel for everyday cooking by poorer people. I'm sure there were people who made a living selling it.
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In reality, you never get "support" from 21st Century corporations, because Customer Are Their Competition (not the other corporations).
I don't think that is true of small companies like JRiver, but then they are too small to diagnose every problem of thousands of customers.
MC18 is $50 for the whole program. To get a few minutes with a doctor is $100 each time.
I used to provide support for IC design software for the big electronics companies. This included flying across the country if needed. We charged about US$200,000 per year for support.