On Nov 21, 5:11 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Let's get real about this math software patent discussion. > Mathematica, Magma, and Maple have no software patents. > Matlab, on the other hand... > This link gives *97* (!) registered patents by Mathworks (makers of MATLAB): > ... > Let's put Mathworks out of business.
This seems to me to be an overly harsh statement towards a generally respectable company. While no company is perfect, The Mathworks has long been a huge supporter of some of the most fundamental and important open source, mathematical software. Cleve Moler, who founded The Mathworks, was one of the primary authors of two important and freely distributable computational libraries in the 1970s: Linpack (the predecessor to Lapack) and Eispack. While no member of The Mathworks is listed as an author of Lapack, the company plays an active role in its development. I believe the same is true of Blas. Moler has long been on the directory board of Netlib, which is certainly the largest repository of freely available software for numerical analysis in existence, and a number of other Mathworks employees are involved with Netlib as well. Mark McClure -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
