On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Nicolas M. Thiery <nicolas.thi...@u-psud.fr> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 12:10:25PM -0700, William Stein wrote: >> It's also interesting how the paper says on page 54 that MuPAD >> "promised to remain >> relatively open..." and "They also have promised to release the code >> source of the library under a well known open-source license, some >> day." I guess selling out to Mathworks pretty dramatically broke that >> promise... > > Dropping their plan of open-sourcing the library actually occurred two > years before, when the university of Paderborn used the occasion of > the retirement of Prof Benno Fuchsteiner (head of MuPAD) to not renew > his professor position for the MuPAD group; in practice this basically > meant firing the MuPAD group from the University, since most people of > the group funded by the university were on assistant positions > attached to Benno's.
So I guess the promise was broken only because the people making it didn't have the power to keep the promise... and they probably would have very much liked to keep the promise if they could have. (It was made by the MuPAD devs rather than Paderborn.) > The later outcome of selling out to Mathworks mostly made MuPAD's cost > *much* higher (they also discontinued their politic of providing free > licenses for MuPAD-Combinat devs). You can't get Matlab prices without signing up for accounts on their website. So I did, and looked up the price of MuPAD now. In the US, it is $3000 for the commercial version ($2000 for MATLAB + $1000 for the MuPAD Symbolic Toolbox). The educational version is $700 ($500 for MATLAB + $200 for the Symbolic Toolbox). These prices will of course be different in other countries. -- William -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
