On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > On 01/ 2/11 04:31 PM, rjf wrote: >> You only have to deal with Univ. Washington or some place that >> installed Mathematica. > > You need to have access to Mathematica, which is not the same thing as your > university having it installed.
rjf is wrong -- the site license that UW purchases from Wolfram for Mathematica does not legally allow David Kirkby to ssh into a UW machine and use the UW copy of Mathematica. Only UW faculty/staff/students can do so without violating the license. >> The second part (randomized input) cannot be done with Wolfram Alpha >> in any automated fashion, >> but you probably knew that it would be at least impolite to do so. > > Agreed. > >> Especially if it were set up so that >> everyone who recompiled Sage also ran the tests which sent 100,000 >> random queries to Wolfram. > > Yes, I was well aware of that. I made that comment a few hours ago. It would > be totally unacceptable. > >> But of course if you want to do something like this, you could run >> stuff through Mathematica at UW. >> So doing that part is pointless too. > > Again, you are making the assumption that everyone has access to a copy of > Mathematica. Or even that non-UW affiliates can *legally* use the version here. >> Though it does surprise me that they bothered to respond. > > They are in general more polite & constructive than you. And more professional. >> Perhaps to >> reinforce the fact >> that you don't have permission to do what they already forbid you from >> doing? > > The reasons are pretty immaterial. Their response has clarified the > position, which is all I wanted. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
