> I must say that it is highly disappointing that to this date there > is no serious free-software alternative to Mathematica.
It all depends on what you want to do. > The three programs mentioned above have been developed for about > 40-50 years by very capable computer scientists and mathematicians. > Axiom/FriCAS is IMHO the best designed of the three, it is thoroughly > documented and all that effort is wasted because the developers do > not care for the needs of the users. Pretty sad. Surely this is sad. But in contrast to Mathematica developers, FriCAS developers don't see a single cent for their efforts. People do that in their spare time. It's just natural that solving their own problems comes first. If that helps other people then fine. Clearly, we could setup a channel where people would be able to devote some money to FriCAS developers in order to get a certain problem solved (implemented). It's not an excuse, but also open source development costs time and effort. The sad thing is that FriCAS does not have enough developers, but a lot of places where it needs improvements. So everyone is welcome to contribute, even if it is just bug reports. Success to whatever you want to achieve. Ralf -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
