J is th best deal in math SW packages I have seen; bar none.
On 10/19/06, Chris Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Roelof K. Brouwer wrote:
> " You get what you pay for " is accepted as a fact by a lot of people.
>
> This certainly is not true in the case of J however. I will be doing
> another sales job on J to the department of computing science here and I
am
> almost afraid to tell people that J is free since that devalues it in
the
> eyes of a lot of people.
>
> I could say that some of the best things in life such as fresh water and
> clean air in some places are still free but these are not produced by
man.
>
> Any ideas on how to explain the free part?
If you are talking to the computer science department, they will already
know that good software can be used for free, and would consider it a
negative if they had to pay for it. Consider Linux plus its vast range
of packages. Nearly all modern programming languages also - java, perl,
python, R etc. J is the norm, rather than the exception.
Note also the consulting and source license pages:
http://www.jsoftware.com/consulting.htm,
http://www.jsoftware.com/source.htm.
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