dan.stanger@ieee.org wrote:
> How would Franz benefit by doing this?
Assuages their guilt for not having bought Macsyma Inc source
code and done something good with it?
Also, how much does ACL
> cost, for a end user, without any university affiliation?
I don't know. I think you call them up and they try to figure
out your situation and what the appropriate level of support/price
etc is. Or maybe they try to guess how much money you have
to spend :) but the ACL+Maxima should be free independent
of affiliation, otherwise it doesn't seem right to me.
> My feeling is, outside of a university, a x86 platform is the
> most common platform for most of us, and Gnu/Linux the prefered operating
> system. I only have 2 reasons for using windows, first because I
> have no linux driver for my free dsl modem and second because I want
> to run Macsyma 2.4, to compare its results against maxima.
I think that here at Berkeley, Windows is far more common than Linux.
RJF
>
> I would even consider paying for a copy of ACL, if it wasn't too expensive,
> but my end goal is a symbolic circuit analysis system, which is free
> and which needs to run in at least one cheap enviornment.
> Dan Stanger