Hi,
If you need to find good reasons for free software, just point your navigator to the Free Software Foundation website. Siesta is just a very small piece of that philosophy. R. On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Oswaldo Dieguez wrote:
Because the best things in life are free... Oswaldo ----- Original Message -----From: "Eduardo Gracia" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 8:35:16 AM Subject: [SIESTA-L] Why Siesta is Free? Hi everyone I've been working with Siesta and other codes since my PhD, now I recently start working in a full experimental research team. They asked me which software I use, and as expected, they didn’t know about Siesta and other codes such as Abinit, lammps (mainly free codes), etc. Then and interesting question comes, If these codes are good, why are they free (for academic purpose)? Personally, I didn’t ask that before, since for me it has been quiet natural that Siesta and other available codes are free, and we can also find support, new version, bug fixes, etc. So, right now I'm asking the same question to the developing team, Why Siesta is free? Regards Eduardo
