Marketing (Was: Will Free Axiom change our world?)

Hi,

> What group of users can we serve better than them?  Do we want to
> present ourselves as the best solution for undergraduate physics
> teaching (maybe)?  For researchers in pure math (probably not)?  For
> light users of CAS (maybe)?  For Linux hackers?  etc.
>
 We would do very well to target scientific professionals (e.g., physicists
in academia and industry), since there is a lot of extant Macsyma/Maxima
code in the literature, and above all the zero cost is a *very* important
driver for most people.  Not everyone has a large grant, after all.  I think
that one of the main selling points here is that Maxima is on par
capability-wise (more-or-less) with Maple et al.  I apologize if I'm stating
the obvious, but these things are really important to new users in the
professional world.

 Dave Holmgren