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Article #63218Re: Wolfram/MMA & vendors refusing release on OS with source
From: Jurgen Botz
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 15:00
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 15:00
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In article <ianc-1302951010360001@info.wri.com>, Ian Collier <ianc@wri.com> wrote: >Wolfram Research is in fact in the process of testing a version >of Mathematica for Linux. If everything goes according to plan >it will be shipping by the second quarter of this year. *grin*. I'm impressed, but not surprised. Watching the growth of Linux it's pretty clear that it won't be long before over 50% of "workstations" running a Unix-like OS will in fact be running Linux or another free OS. Vendors who want broad market coverage won't be able to ignore free OSes.
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