On May 16, 2007, at 12:17 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote:
> I agree with Justin Walker that this seems a bit to confrontational
> for my tastes. Maybe that's what the business world likes?
I think it's less what the business world likes, and more what the
media likes. Controversy sells.
I think we should give the tone some thought. On the one one hand,
we really aren't in direct competition with Mathematica and others
(we give no guarantees, and operators are *not* standing by; if you
got a bug, fix it and send us a patch :-}). On the other hand, we do
strive to offer an alternative that should be appealing (open source,
low cost of ownership, ...), but we don't want to go head-to-head for
a variety of reasons.
A bit of tweaking is fine, but...
Justin
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