"It is unlikely that someone would pay for what amounts to a rarely-used utility program like pw.mac."
This is true about pw.mac. I am looking for ideas on what to do next. I want to learn Lisp too for my next project whatever it is.
I want to do programs that are faster and maybe better than my first one. I was thinking about inverse Fourier Transforms of
piecewise functions but I bet that is also in the same category as pw.mac, a "rarely-used utility program".
Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Fateman" <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu>
To: "Richard Hennessy" <rich.hennessy at verizon.net>
Cc: "Maxima List" <maxima at math.utexas.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Maxima] Ideas welcome
re: selling maxima program packages...
There are technical barriers to doing so in any "secure" way.
You could translate/compile it so that the source code was not readable.
That would not prevent someone from sending a copy to someone else.
It is unlikely that someone would pay for what amounts to a rarely-used
utility program like pw.mac.
If you put together a package that could (for example) do some important
engineering computation needed on a daily basis to actually earn money using
Maxima, there is nothing preventing you from selling it. And I think
that is just fine.
RJF
_______________________________________________
Maxima mailing list
Maxima at math.utexas.edu
http://www.math.utexas.edu/mailman/listinfo/maxima