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 -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
