On Sep 9, 7:23 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 09/ 9/10 10:47 AM, Jan Groenewald wrote:
>
> > * the price of the software
> >http://www.wolfram.com/events/southafrica2010/
> > $139.95 even for students. I'm not sure I can convey
> > how astronomical that amount to almost all African
> > students. Worse, when they want to start a small
> > business after completing their studies, the price
> > jumps more than tenfold.
>
> Whilst I agree with much of what you say, there's a couple of inaccuracies 
> there
>
>   * I highly suspect African students can obtain Mathematica at far less cost
> than US students. You would need to ask Wolfram Research, but I believe like
> many companies, they do sell their products to poorer countries at 
> considerably
> lower cost.

Well, Jan does *live* in RSA... though I didn't see anything about
pricing on the tour page.

- kcrisman

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