Wolfram's New Kind of Science Now Online

Posted by michael on Friday February 6, 2004 @03:19AM from the light-reading dept.

gotscheme writes "When Stephen Wolfram of Mathematica fame self-published A New Kind of Science in 2002, he raised the suspicions of many in scientific communities that he was taking advantage of a lot of other people's work for his sole financial gain and that he was going against the open nature of academia by using restrictive copyright. Yesterday, Wolfram and company released the entire contents of NKS for free on the Web (short registration required). Perhaps Wolfram is giving back to the scientific community; perhaps it is simply clever marketing for a framework that is beginning to gain momentum. For any matter, the entire encyclopedic volume is online, and this appears to be a positive step for scientific writing."

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Lisence by after · 2004-02-06 03:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I cant access the website here at school, TIES for some reason blocks it (pornogrophy), could someone tell me what lisence this is posted on?

If its the Commons license, then, ugh, cool and stuff...