> On a related, and possibly more promising note, are there any
> employees still on the net who could give us a summary of
> what they had to do? I don't know what they can and can't
> say, but presumably they could at least sketch the problem spots.
Yes, there are employees on the net, and some of them are sympathetic to
Maxima, but (a) they are bound by non-disclosure agreements; (b) I don't
see what they could say that could help us besides the code itself; (c)
the code itself belongs to Macsyma/Symbolics; (d) I have asked them
before for any code that does *not* belong to Macsyma/Symbolics (e.g.
code contributed by outside people), and have not gotten anything back.
Rumor has it that some ex-employees would be willing to slip us a copy
of the commercial code under the table, but it would be legally risky
for any of us to even *see* that code, much less use it.
-s