On 14/07/2008, at 8:06 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > On Jul 13, 10:42 pm, Harald Schilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> You forget one point (for me the probably biggest one) - the >> community. Especially around matlab you have a wide range of "open >> source" (public domain, do what you want. ..) code on the web, spread >> over many websites. So, if you need some functionality, you can get >> it >> quite easily. > > On BIG BIG problem I feel with Mathematica is Wolfram try to control > the community far too much.
It's more than control of community. They take the "proprietary" in software to the next level, to the point that one cannot satisfactorily use it as a platform because it is too locked down. Wolfram's failure to value to "the freedom to study" and "the freedom to tinker" mean that I have not been able to get the information I wanted. And re-discovering the same bug... "the freedom to redistribute your changes" saves a lot of time in the long run. Though the icing on the cake was twice being left without a license. I am at the point where I don't care how good Mathematica is, I will not lock myself into it for another project. D ================================== David J Philp Postdoctoral Fellow National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health Building 62, cnr Mills Rd & Eggleston Rd The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia T: +61 2 6125 8260 F: +61 2 6125 0740 M: 0423 535 397 W: http://nceph.anu.edu.au/ CRICOS Provider #00120C --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
