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Article #63291Re: Wolfram/MMA & vendors refusing release on OS with source
From: beau paisley
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 01:18
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 01:18
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This thread truly amazes me. Some of the most sophisticated and advanced software exists in the math software market. (replacing a symbolic package is a couple orders of magnitude above replacing a grep replacement or yet another editor.) If we want professional supported math software it costs. You don't get professional support and continued development of these types of packages without paying. Sometimes the prices might be way out of line as the case with MATLAB but none the less. The GNU mentality prevalent in Rich's original posting is sad. I almost start to believe that people are falling for this. Remember the seat-of-the-pants, hacker heritage behind GNU! Microsofts method of degrading the quality of software in the market has now truly been exceeded by GNU! Remember: "Free Software is worth every penny you pay for it."
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,5004f6c9ec7613a5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-02-13 17:18:55 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!stern.fokus.gmd.de!gmdtub!cs.tu-berlin.de!fauern!news.th-darmstadt.de!hrz-ws11.hrz.uni-kassel.de!newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.dfn.de!news.dkrz.de!news.rrz.uni-hamburg.de!unibwh.unibw-hamburg.de!Germany.EU.net!Munich.Germany.EU.net!news.mch.sni.de!news.sni.de!aquila.sni-usa.com!noc.near.net!paperboy.wellfleet.com!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!insosf1.infonet.net!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!nntp.cac.washington.edu!paisley From: paisley@u.washington.edu (beau paisley) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Wolfram/MMA & vendors refusing release on OS with source Message-ID: <3hp0dv$dsk@nntp1.u.washington.edu> Date: 14 Feb 95 01:18:55 GMT References: <WGD.95Feb10184257@martigny.ai.mit.edu> <TROMEY.95Feb10234804@kant.klab.caltech.edu> Distribution: gnu Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 18 NNTP-Posting-Host: carson.u.washington.edu