I agree 100% with the OP. Yes, with extra decorations google can find
it. But it's sometimes hard to find an effective decorator when you
want to search for a particular thing about maxima... I'd imagine that
googling for help on optimization within maxima would be troublesome
(I haven't tried.)
I've run across this problem before. Try googling for info about the
TeX package ConTeXt. Nearly impossible. There's another good
example ... I can't remember, but a couple of years ago on open source
scientific package changed it's name due to copyright issues from an
uncommon non-word to a common word. Can't remember what it was, but I
was dismayed.
Maksima? Maksyma? Makxima? Makzima?
I strongly suspect this idea will go nowhere.
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Richard Fateman
<fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> I did not like the name Maxima, at the very beginning, for the reason that
> it was
> so non-descriptive and commonplace. ?It is not only a mathematical notion
> [not really
> descriptive of the mathematics of the program], and the Nissan car, but lots
> of other things
> including candy bars and condoms.
>
> (Nor did I like the name "vaxima" which was given to the version I brought
> up on a DEC VAX in 1979. )
>
> ?The name DOE Macsyma seems to me to be appropriate, and something in use
> not only by MIT but by the US government. ?but I am not a lawyer. ?If each
> document dealing with
> Maxima notes that it is an open-source program derived in part from the
> Macsyma system,
> then search on Macsyma will find relevant documents.
>
> Stavros is right, I think, about being sued by a cardboard box. Who needs
> it.
>
> RJF
>
>
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