I think its ridiculous to suggest that access to the bug tracker doesn't matter just because its a closed-source product. Every non-trivial code has bugs and when you run into one it is very helpful to know that other can reproduce it, what kind of workarounds there are, and get notified when the bug is fixed. (Though it tends to leave a stale taste in your mouth if you are then asked to buy a new version to get the fix for the bug you reported)
As far as I know the commercial M's don't even offer professional customer support. When I found a bug in Intel's C++ compiler (that crashed on some well-formed C++), I could report it on their bug tracking system (though it does not allow you to see other bugs) and an Intel engineer tried to find a workaround. They eventually suggested a workaround and finally informed me that it got fixed in a newer release. -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
