On Jun 10, 5:57 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net>
wrote:
> Harald Schilly wrote:
> > Nice and interesting article on everything2.com about free maths
> > software, a presentation by wolfram about mathematica and thoughts
> > about the reason, why mathematica is still tolerated. Link to Sage
> > included ;)
>
> >http://everything2.com/title/mathematica%20and%20free%20software
>
> Yes, quite an interesting article.
Seems to me that it displays many poorly-formulated analogies between
computing, open-source, mathematics, and proofs.
>
> I know at UCL Wolfram Research wanted to come and give a presentation on
> Mathematica and bring some freebies along. (We had a site license
> anyway). I was quite keen on this, but when I discussed it with the lady
> who administers the Mathematica license, her view was the uni could not
> let all software companies have time to present their software, so in
> her view it was unfair to let Wolfram Research do so. It seemed a
> strange view to me, but I could not be bothered to argue with her.
>
The usual way around that is for someone to be a faculty sponsor of
their talk.
But if WRI doesn't understand that then they don't warrant the chance
to give a presentation.
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