Re: Is Mathematica Student Edition fully functional

From: Don Taylor (dont_at_agora.rdrop.com)
Date: 06/02/04 

Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 12:23:15 -0500

"'cid 'ooh" <poohonlsd@yahoo.com> writes:
>William Elliot wrote:
>>On Mon, 31 May 2004, 'cid 'ooh wrote:
>>>I think the real problem with mathematica is the Draconian licensing
>>> scheme put in place. For instance, any discovery made while using
>>> mathematica is "Wolfram Institute property."--he owns the copyright!
>>
>> What a greedy outrage!!! So all research institutes and all
>> colleges and professors with aim to publish and all corporations who
>> are developing new products and all students with a creative future
>> to expect wouldn't want that arrogant error prone piece of soft...
>> sware, even for free, because> they'd be mortgaging their future
>> potential to the big bad Wolfram. What if somebody discovers a
>> theorem with the help of the big bad Wolfram? Does that mean that the
>> big bad Wolfram owns the theorem?

>Yes--you technically need Wolfram's permission to publish your result.
>>>From what I understand, people who work with mathematica usually find a
>friend with maple or matlab to "confirm" their calculations. Then they
>forget all about mathematica. :)

I'd like to see where you found the statement that technically you
need Wolfram's permission to publish. I've searched and I cannot
find it.

I have a couple of failing brain cells that seem to think they once
saw a statement that said you needed to cite Mathematica if you
published a result obtained from Mathematica. I think the wording
was about the same as you would need to cite any other published
material if you published some information from it. But I cannot
find that now, I have searched for that and I'd like to find that.

I even sent an email to Wolfram asking them about this. Their
response could only provide the citation information I'd already
found:

   http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/reference/general/citing.html

   You can reference Mathematica in your published work just as
   you would reference a book or any other publication. The
   standard citation elements for Mathematica are:

   * Mathematica 5.0

   Author: Wolfram Research, Inc.
   Title: Mathematica
   Edition: Version 5.0
   Publisher: Wolfram Research, Inc.
   Place of publication: Champaign, Illinois
   Date of publication: 2003
   ...

So, does anyone else remember reading the statement about needing
to cite Mathematica when you publish results obtained from it?

And please provide the original source for your statement that all
work done with is owned by Wolfram and that permission is needed
before publishing.

Thank you

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