Does anybody have any ideas how a cooperation could look like? I feel it's
a shame that we don't have access to the bugfixes incorporated in the
commercial version, nor to their buglist...
On the other hand, the answer sounds rather strange to me: Why does he
state he's not able to generate a key for the unix version? What does this
mean: he has no Linux version? I thought the source would be more or less
the same - save the front-end, maybe...
I'm not sure what we have to offer, but maybe somebody has ideas...
(at least we can offer that we keep the community going)
Martin
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, C Y wrote:
> "The owner of Symbolics bought Macsyma back 1999. In the course of the
> next year he lost all of the employees, had to put the assets
> (including the servers with the source code) into storage and cease
> operations. He tasked to me to continue selling Macsyma through
> Symbolics to anyone that wanted. When the Macsyma servers went down,
> their website went off the net and subsequently, someone else picked up
> the domain name."
>
> That explains what happened to the macsyma.com address.
>
> "We sell a Macsyma CD with keys to the Windows version of Macsyma and
> PDEase for $500. There is no hard copy documentation and no support
> available. I do not have the Linux version and do not have the ability
> to generate a key for the Unix version."
>
> So there we have it. Apparently there isn't enough funding to restart
> active development right now. I just hope those hard disks don't go
> bad in storage. Does sound like the hope is to do something with it
> someday, so I suspect buying the rights to the code might be a tad
> expensive :-(. I didn't ask though.
>
> There currently isn't any info about Macsyma on the Symbolics website.
> Here's the guy to contact: (Note - he also is the Lisp Machine guy, if
> anyone is still into Lisp machines.)
>
> DAVID K. SCHMIDT
> Dir. of Sales & Maintenance Operations
> Symbolics
> P.O. Box 10862, Burke, VA 22009
> 703-455-0430 (voice)
> 703-440-0388 (fax)
> dkschmidt@compuserve.com
>
> Personally, the no support thing kinda ma
>
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