Minh Nguyen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:49 AM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I believe these services are at least partially relevant to this list, >> particularly the Wolfram announcement. If they have been mentioned >> recently here, my apologies. > > Here's a recent article from Groklaw on differences in "terms of use" > between Google and Wolfram|Alpha: > > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090518204959409 > >
From http://www.wolframalpha.com/termsofuse.html#waystouse "The Wolfram|Alpha service may be used only by a human being using a conventional web browser to manually enter queries one at a time. Because Wolfram|Alpha is doing computation, not just lookup, each query may require significant CPU time on multiple parallel servers. Any attempt to use a robot, script, or organized group of humans to repeatedly access Wolfram|Alpha could place an unacceptable load on the system, and is strictly forbidden." So much for a Sage interface to Alpha... Jason >> - kcrisman > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
