On 10/29/10 12:33 AM, Dan Drake wrote:
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 at 12:31PM -0700, William Stein wrote:
Our Sage contract with Stein only covers computers owned by University
of Washington Seattle. Any other installations must be removed.
Faculty and Staff of the UW Seattle campus may connect to
http://sagemath.org/homeuse/ to request a Sage license for their
personally owned computer under the Home-use program. RA's TA's and
other student positions are not considered staff by Stein. Sage
licenses acquired through the Home-use program may not be used for
work associated with any UW class being attended by the Faculty/Staff
member as a student.
Jason Grout discovered as much a couple years ago:
http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/5d93024ffaf3ff3e/
There, a Wolfram rep effectively said that connecting to a university
computer over ssh violates their license. And now we see that they're
willing to enforce that. I can only see this as being good for Sage.
Dan
This I think might be a non-issue. I know for the site license UCL had, it
permitted staff to install Mathematica on their own computer. I found this out
by chance one day, when I wanted to move a mathematica license from one machine
to another. The stupid Procurement Department had never told us we could legally
install Mathematica on our own computers.
So I asked for a SPARC license to run Mathematica on my home computer. I was
originally told "A Sun is not a home computer", but after some discussions, they
made an exception and gave me a license for SPARC.
So if your license is anything like the UCL one was several years ago, then you
could install Mathematica on it directly. In which case, since the machine
itself is covered, that would permit you to ssh in.
If using a web browser is not permitted, this would be an interesting question
to ask. I suspect it would get scrathing their head!
"Would it be permitted to use a modified version of Firefox, that was used as a
front end to Mathematica using the Mathlink protocol (not HTTP) to communicate
with the kernel?"
If you want to put students off of using Mathematica, I can suggest a very
simple way. Suggest they look on job sites like phdjobs, monstir.com, and search
for the number of jobs requiring Mathematica skills. Then do the same for MATLAB
and Python. Basically you will find 100's of jobs requiring MATLAB and Python
skills, but very few for Mathematica. (Of course, the vast majority of the
Python jobs are not scientific, so the comparison with Python is less fair, but
a comparison with MATLAB is IMHO very fair.)
Judging by the number of jobs requiring Mathematica skills, I get the feeling
the takeup of the program in industry is very close to zero. The jobs that do
exist tend to be in the financial sector, which might mean they are well paid.
But they are very few and far between.
Dave
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