Is it worth to do?
What is valuable there? The developing of Macsyma was broken more than 8 years
ago! It's getting old. From my point of few only small portion of former
macsyma may be still actual. This is connected with PDE-Easy (I'm not sure in
the name).
That part is devoted to solving pde with finite element method. It was very
elegantly connected with macsyma's itensor.
However, I don't think that this tool can be seriously used elsewhere except
education.
Also, I think it is not very difficult to reproduce analog within the
current version using either finite differences from contrib/gentran or a
kind of spectral/pseudospectral method. I'm intending to write the code for
the solar dynamo eigen values problem using maxima and pseudospectral
method.
best regards,
valery
Jaime E. Villate wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 13:48 -0800, Daniel Lakeland wrote:
> > Google has also been
> > instrumental through its Summer of Code program in improving several
> > free software packages.
>
> If I remember correctly, a Maxima proposal was sent to the Summer of
> Code, and it was not accepted.
>
> > What is the chance that we could convince Google to buy out, or
> > provide matching funds for a buy out of commercial Macsyma for release
> > under the GPL and eventual incorporation into maxima?
>
> I guess we'll only find out if you go ahead and try it :)
>
> > A similar buyout was arranged for the Blender 3D modelling system back
> > in 2002 (100k euros for the GPL release).
>
> By the way, in a move similar to what was done with Blender, a group
> is asking for donations to rescue a very nice 3D game/simulation, whose
> owners are requesting bankruptcy. You can see the details in
> http://www.ryzom.org/
> (The Free Software Foundation has donated $ 60 000)
>
> Regards,
> Jaime
>
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