Re: Does anyone else think Wolfram Research are unfair to Unixusers?

In article <487470cd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dave <foo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Ivar Rosquist wrote:
On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:34:59 -0700, Karen Bindash wrote:

Wolfram Research charge a hefty premium for Unix (HP-UX, Solaris etc)
versions of Mathematica, over that charged for Windows, Linux and Mac.
Yet they have not released 6.0.3 for Unix at all:

http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/latestversion/

Wolfram Research have confirmed to me that they do not intend releasing
version 6.0.3 for Unix. Yet it is clear that at some or all of the
changes in 6.0.3 listed at the above URL would benefit Unix users the
same way they benefit Windows, Mac and Linux users.

Wolfram is the Microsoft of the computer algebra world: They'll
screw you for as long as they can.



With Microsoft now funding a native port of Sage to Windows (without the
need for Cygwin)

http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ack.html

Wolfram will have some competition from an open-source computer algebra
system on the Windows platform.

I guess the Unix versions of Mathematica are selling less than the
Linux/Windows/Mac ones, which is why WRI don't put as much effort into
the Unix ones. I think this is most evident in the fact that Solaris x86
is supported only on AMD CPUs, not Intel.

You don't make it available, or you charge too much, and it
doesn't sell. At many scientific meetings, I have asked the
Scientific Word (I think I have it right) why they do not
have their partially WYSIWYG version of TeX available for
Unix, and they claim it would not sell well enough for the
effort. I cannot believe this.

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