--- "Nikolaos I. Ioakimidis" <ioakimidis@otenet.gr> wrote:
> My impression is that now Macsyma can be sold and
> (theoretically) is really sold mainly by DOE (DOE-Macsyma)
> and by the known company to where Macsyma Inc. had
> been sold too. (Again I do not remember the name this moment.)
We're talking about the Macsyma Inc codebase, which Andrew Topping? (I
believe) bought.
> The company mentioned below, Symbolics Technology, Inc.
> seems to have no rights to sell Maxima, but only LISP-
> machines and related software, not including Macsyma ,
> since Symbolics, Inc.seems to have transferred this
> particular right (the right to sell Macsyma) to Macsyma,
> Inc. and not to Symbolics Technology, Inc.
The discussed possibility is the owner of both Symbolics and commercial
Macsyma is the same individual, and as a consequence Symbolics is again
set up to sell commercial Macsyma. No indication of that so far
though.
> This seems to be the reason that no advertisement is present.
>
> Naturally, this is my personal opinion, but with respect to
> D.O.E., I am almost sure, there is still an announcement
> about the availability of Maxima.
Maxima and commercial Macsyma are two different things - it is the
renewed availability of commercial Macsyma which is perking interest
-for some people the added bug fixes present in the commercial version
are worth the $$$. However, thus far I haven't seen any direct
evidence that Symbolics has Macsyma to offer, and my email asking about
it was never answered.
CY
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