Sigh. I dream of Mathematica being open source.
Take a look at Maxima then. It is a good system too but not even close in quality, features, etc.I blame its open source nature for this.
Take a look at Maxima then. It is a good system too but not even close in quality, features, etc.I blame its open source nature for this.
Why is it's open source nature to blame here? Can you elaborate?
Is it the product vs. project argument?
In my not so humble opinion and only in my opinion open sourcing of Maxima (or Macsyma) put it in the wrong hands. Not to blame the actual developers of Maxima. Maxima is a very good project by itself just not as good as its commercial competitors.
And anyway, having a(nother) open-source symbolic mathematical program is better than not having it, even if it is substandard compared to the commercial offerings.