where should free maxima (or defunct commercial) macsyma live?

(this is, in a sense, a followup on the marketing
discussion.)


Note that TeX has been adopted by the American Math Society.

Could Macsyma/Maxima be adopted by some other organization
and made a standard for (say) encoding live mathematics
in documents, instructional material, newly-produced
journal articles, etc?

I have, for several years, been pushing the notion that
computer algebra systems should supplement and incorporate
math documents, rather than (or in addition to) being
command-driven interactive programs.


This week I visited Simon Fraser University's Jon Borwein,
who had some excellent suggestions about organizations
he is heavily involved in, and I think that this is
definitely worth further study.

If one of these organizations were to even recommend
(much less standardize on!) say  MathML as an supplement to
TeX in publications,  and to specify that the content
of the MathML could be "commands in Macsyma"  then
this would have great benefits to all involved.  (it is presumably
not feasible to say the same of Maple or Mathematica
because of the financial implications).

If the current owner of commercial Macsyma were to
donate the code to the International Mathematics Union
(see below)  that would be great.  (I am not hopeful
of this, but who knows).

Here are URLs to start.

http://www.ceic.math.ca/

see especially this paragraph
"#  Moreover, electronic publication is not restricted by the 
constraints of the traditional print medium. This provides an 
opportunity to detail material that might otherwise be dismissed as 
"well known" and to add explanatory appendices. A little less easily, 
whenever appropriate, one may include graphic enhancements, animations, 
extensive data, tools to analyze that data, or even active examples that 
may be varied by the reader."

from
http://www.ceic.math.ca/staticpages/index.php?page=20020810121101976

This committee is part of the International Mathematical Union
whose web page, slightly dated it seems, is located
here

http://www.mathunion.org/

and should also be perused.

RJF