You use it, you test it, you use a "free trial". In fact my option i believe to be more useful than pawing through piles of source code that some other guy wrote This works like any other product... use it, and deal with it. Source code for an application is not necessary with good documentation. When contracting someone to build a home, do you ask where every nail is going to be placed? No, you have better things to do with your time. You trust that the name of the contractor is good enough and you get in touch with them if there is a problem. what do you want the source to? the libs, the engine, or both.
Thing is, that you know the libraries are correct because you can view the source of a lot of the libraries, and people can verify it through the community. What im saying is that the engine could be proprietary, and the libraries are not. The stuff is all mathematical cookbook anyways, why bother closing the source on them. Maple is dependable. its written by experts, ans supported by experts. Its a good community --jay
The thing here is that its like exchange. Now exchange is a beast, but the idea is good. Keep one copy of a mail that may be read by hundreds of people. In a large scale system then all you need to do is share some files. I mean instead of everyone on an NT system installing their own stuff, it keeps on copy, thus freeing up the other crap that is there. Innovation is not only coming up with new technologies, but also applying technologies. The screen reader in win2000 isnt great, but its a step in the right direction for all OS's. br --jay
Maple is awesome. It is ever getting better, and its fast and can do some speectacular stuff.. go to waterloomaple.com and check it out sometime. Why not leave it alone? This is what i dislike about the code-communist view of some open source people. Play with the OS, Leave the apps alone. It kinda sickens me for everyone to destroy people's livelyhood by ganging up and creating a free alternative to paid software. Maple and the maple community at large are an excellent group of academic scholars. Leave it alone. Why not create a VMWare clone? why not create a million or so wordperfect clones? why not create an everything clone? Leave good enough alone and focus on the os. Open source is about making good software, not distroying businesses making a decent living. Lets keep it in focus people. --jay
Geeko.. interesting. YOu all know of course this is going to go downhill, into all sorts of ugly marketing wars now.. Perhaps we can have a Distro mascot fighting game, or even a popular japanese cartoon ripoff, Distromon. "Mozillarian, i choose you." I can see it now. Linux breakfast cerial? im not holding my breath.. marshmellow kernels and Korn puffs. And of course on the back, besides only telling you the ingrediants, they tell you how to make the cerial, and give you a place to post improvements...
Napster is trouble. Plain and simple. Banning ICQ, or AOL may be censorship, as these programs have legitamate uses. If the music industry starts looking to college campuses, they had better have their asses covered. People on an individual scale can commit small illegal acts without people noticing, like littering. If New York dumps its trash into canada, then people are gonna get pissed. Point is, you're not stopping the free exchange of information, you're covering your ass against the music industry. Sure, you can run napster, if you can afford the 50K a year to go to a college after they have been sued. --jay
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You use it, you test it, you use a "free trial". In fact my option i believe to be more useful than pawing through piles of source code that some other guy wrote This works like any other product... use it, and deal with it. Source code for an application is not necessary with good documentation. When contracting someone to build a home, do you ask where every nail is going to be placed? No, you have better things to do with your time. You trust that the name of the contractor is good enough and you get in touch with them if there is a problem. what do you want the source to? the libs, the engine, or both.
Thing is, that you know the libraries are correct because you can view the source of a lot of the libraries, and people can verify it through the community.
What im saying is that the engine could be proprietary, and the libraries are not. The stuff is all mathematical cookbook anyways, why bother closing the source on them.
Maple is dependable. its written by experts, ans supported by experts. Its a good community
--jay
The thing here is that its like exchange. Now exchange is a beast, but the idea is good. Keep one copy of a mail that may be read by hundreds of people. In a large scale system then all you need to do is share some files. I mean instead of everyone on an NT system installing their own stuff, it keeps on copy, thus freeing up the other crap that is there.
Innovation is not only coming up with new technologies, but also applying technologies. The screen reader in win2000 isnt great, but its a step in the right direction for all OS's.
br --jay
Maple is awesome. It is ever getting better, and its fast and can do some speectacular stuff.. go to waterloomaple.com and check it out sometime.
Why not leave it alone? This is what i dislike about the code-communist view of some open source people. Play with the OS, Leave the apps alone. It kinda sickens me for everyone to destroy people's livelyhood by ganging up and creating a free alternative to paid software. Maple and the maple community at large are an excellent group of academic scholars. Leave it alone.
Why not create a VMWare clone? why not create a million or so wordperfect clones? why not create an everything clone? Leave good enough alone and focus on the os.
Open source is about making good software, not distroying businesses making a decent living. Lets keep it in focus people. --jay
Geeko.. interesting. YOu all know of course this is going to go downhill, into all sorts of ugly marketing wars now.. Perhaps we can have a Distro mascot fighting game, or even a popular japanese cartoon ripoff, Distromon. "Mozillarian, i choose you." I can see it now. Linux breakfast cerial? im not holding my breath.. marshmellow kernels and Korn puffs. And of course on the back, besides only telling you the ingrediants, they tell you how to make the cerial, and give you a place to post improvements...
Napster is trouble. Plain and simple. Banning ICQ, or AOL may be censorship, as these programs have legitamate uses. If the music industry starts looking to college campuses, they had better have their asses covered. People on an individual scale can commit small illegal acts without people noticing, like littering. If New York dumps its trash into canada, then people are gonna get pissed. Point is, you're not stopping the free exchange of information, you're covering your ass against the music industry. Sure, you can run napster, if you can afford the 50K a year to go to a college after they have been sued. --jay