Re: Wolfram/MMA & vendors refusing release on OS with source

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From: Thomas Aaron Insel
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 17:26

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wgd@zurich.ai.mit.edu (William G. Dubuque) writes:

>   From: roussel@physics.mcgill.ca (Harold Roussel)
>   Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
>   Subject: Re: MMA for Linux?
>   Date: 8 Feb 1995 17:40:45 GMT

>   Concerning a Linux version of MMA, well, there was a thread in the various
>   *.linux.* newsgroups about it a couple of weeks ago.  I seem to remember
>   that Wolfram would not develop for Linux because the source code of the
>   OS was available to everybody, and people could hack the OS so that the
>   license regulation stuff would be violated, etc, etc.  I don't remember the
>   details.  You might want to send e-mail to wolfram about this.

I'm not entirely convinced that this is correct.  In particular, note that
source code is available for SunOS, and that Mathematica develops for Sun.

-- 
Thomas Insel (tinsel@uiuc.edu)
  "Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names."
                                 -- Toni Morrison

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