Note to all Mathematica 10 users: bug-fixes will not be available to anyone unless you:
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Hi Glen,
I cant beleave it!
Is this true? Tell me that it is not.
Before going ahead in the comment I would make sure this is really so. I have just upgraded to v10.2 from v10.0.1 to stumble into a situation even worse than that of 10.0.1. V10.12 is unusable as it is now.
If it is really so, it brings back a discussion in MathGroup about the different WRI pricing policies applied to USA and the rest of the world (Europe versus USA in particular).
I have been a full (international license) user since the initial versions, 2.xx; purchasing licenses both in Europe and USA, and moved to Home license after realizing that European upgrades costed about three or four times the fee of that applied to USA licensees. In fact Home licenses were launched shortly after this discussion, which involved many different people from different countries and places. My last full license is v6.x.x, and the issue on the pricing aroused when I tried to upgrade in Europe a v5.x.x license purchased in USA (I had upgraded in USA, several times from the earliest v4.x.x licenses purchased in Europe).
If it is as you say, it seems pretty unfair to me. I have just made a post, few minutes ago (on INTERNAL SELF-TEST ERROR : MLParseStream | c | 102 & 296) , describing why v10.2 is truly unbearable. It is impossible to work with it as it currently is; in my case at least. who should anticipate that?
And the instability comes from the very first release of version 10 (v10.0.0, which was upgraded immediately for free to v10.01).
Cheers (!?).
Martin.