On 21/03/2008, Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Also, some smart people worked on Mathematica. Maybe they did it right..
Smart perhaps, but certainly unscrupulous. Wolfram is notorious for
being a litigious nut. Closing it up is just not the way to do
mathematics. I think the last time we tolerated this sort of nonsense
was with Cardano and Tartaglia in the sixteenth century, the
equivalent of the mathematical middle ages. Going back to those times
seems like regression to me.
Mathematica certainly has good ideas to offer, but it legally forbids
offering them. A real pity.
- Jordi G. H.