| From: Hiisi <very-c...@rambler.ru> | Maple is not open source (free). It was main argument for me to choose another | symbolic arithmetic program - maxima ( maxima.sourceforge.net ). It's | brilliant.
My daughter bought Mathmatica for a project perhaps five years ago. She ran it on RHL9 or something like it. Anyway, she would have to relicence it to move it to a newer distro release or machine so she still runs it on the same ancient machine. If she had bought it for Windows XP, it would have had a much longer lifetime. Lesson: proprietary licensing models work even worse on open platforms because open platform have a tradition of binary obsolescence. Perhaps Maplesoft has a better upgrade model than Wolfram. The only symbolic algebra package I ever bought was muMATH for the z80: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuMATH I never got it to work due to its kind of copy protection. There's a theme here. PARI/GP worked well for my modest needs but it would not work for yours. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
