--- synthespian <synthespian@uol.com.br> wrote:
> This the tragedy of proprietary software; the implications of
> which are clear in this case. Of course, that was back in the 80s, a
> different time and mind set. But many a fine product have been lost
to
> oblivion. XLisp-Stat was another...
> I have seen Macsyma in use recently, at the International Lisp
> Conference 2002, in San Francisco, because there was a guy there with
> a notebook and Macsyma. He was a pretty young dude. He said he had it
> because he knew some former Macsyma developers.
> Is there any hope of that code going in to public domain, or being
> open sourced (in an OSI sense) *if we beg them* ? ;-)
I rather doubt it.
> What if...what if...you Maxima developers got in touch with those
> former developers...Any hope?
It's not the developers that count when it comes to the Macsyma code -
it's the people who own the rights to it. And so far there are no
indications at all that the Macsyma Inc. code owners are intersted in
open source.
> By the way, I've been on this list for some time. Maxima *just
> gets better*! You guys deserve major applause!
>
> A side question: who is the Maxima documentation team?
Essentially, whoever writes the documentation. Docs have been pretty
quiet lately. I'm trying to do a little work on maximabook. Feel like
writing some docs? :-)
CY
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