Subject: Which platforms are being used for Maxima?
From: Albert Reiner
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:26:39 +0200
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 10:04:01AM -0400, Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> >Some of us are not ecstatic about conceptually local applications doing
> >Internet IO sub rosa.
>
> I am not sure how many users care about this these days;
In case it matters, at least one does: me.
I almost never run maxima on a system with a live connection to the
internet. And starting up maxima is slow enough already.
Also I find the idea of software that "phones home" disgusting,
especially in this case where I do not get any benefit. (I do not
necessarily want to update to the most recent release all the time,
and for people using a distribution it would be most annoying if they
prefer to use the vendor's packages.)
Albert.