On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 14:16 -0400, Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> 2) Why would TI want to release Derive under GPL?
>
> TI says "our plan is to incorporate Derive features and
> compatibility into new TI products", so a GPL Derive would presumably
> compete with their newer products. If TI were abandoning the CAS
> market entirely, it would be easier to persuade them to release Derive
> under GPL.
TI hopes that the users of Derive will start buying their calculators
and asking their students to do so, rather than installing another CAS
system in their PCs. They will definitely not want to release Derive as
Free Software. I think it would be a waste of time trying to convince
them. I'd rather spend that time teaching former users of Derive how to
migrate to Maxima. I did that in a Conference I attended last year where
there were several people frustrated with the disappearance of Derive.
Regards,
Jaime Villate