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Well, there's a lot - a few I happen to be familiar with: Maxima: https://maxima.sourceforge.io/ Axiom: http://www.axiom-developer.org/ OpenCascade: https://dev.opencascade.org/ BR…

Although I personally think matching the OpenBSD libressl license would have been better, I still have to regard the move towards using one of the mainstream, modern standard open …

When I was in a hardware store last year, I had a chance to compare a 4k and 5k iMac side by side. IIRC, the size was the same and it came down to PPI. For casual use 4k was plenty…

The current copyright system is probably inevitable if you view monetization as the sole valid means of creation incentivization. There are also those who want to preserve the "int…

Wonder if there have been any updates since this: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1a4wvf/kalman_...

I'm quite intrigued by the libfossil project ( http://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/repos/libfossil ) which attempts to make the core fossil VCS abilities available as a library. To th…

This is cool, but (as usual with the Smithsonian) they claim copyright and/or commercial usage restrictions on the downloadable data. I wish they wouldn't do that...

Google turns up these: https://www.google.com/patents/US5628016 https://www.google.com/patents/US6247169 https://patents.google.com/patent/US20070016894A1 I'm not sure about the la…

From what I can see, if Apache OpenOffice wants to be a viable project with Libreoffice already out there and well ahead from a user perspective, it needs to focus on things that a…

I knew it - our brains are written in Lisp!

It lacks a graphical application development framework that's portable and usable. Java eventually solved this problem (more or less) but neither Garnet nor CLIM ever reached a lev…

Have you ever had to try converting a large pile of pre-existing Tcl/Tk code to L? Wondering how much work that would be...

What's the license on this project? I'm wondering if it might fit in well with some work Tim Daly has started on the Axiom project hooking up computer algebra to coq et. al.: https…

A good point. I didn't specify in my initial comment (and I should have) but one of our other criteria is to be able to build everything with just a C/C++ compiler. So we'd have to…

Close, but it doesn't appear to be active (the version you get from the download link is from 1996?) and it's using the 4 clause BSD license, which (as I understand it) poses GPL c…

I note that with the exception of the sam code (which unfortunately uses the Lucent Public License Version 1.02, this editor is very liberally licensed (ISC/MIT/CC0). If the sam co…

Free open access journals (just two I happen to know of - I'm sure there are more): http://theoryofcomputing.org/ http://jcgt.org/

That's actually quite interesting - I remember similar comments (Phd required, or Phds aren't able to understand it) cropping up in discussions of the GNU autotools toolchain. (Wit…

Everybody hates some aspects of some of them, in my experience. People also tend to have strongly held preferences in the build system department - it's a bit like text editors. I …

The other two projects that leap to mind for open source CAD are FreeCAD and BRL-CAD, but I'm not sure either would meet your particular requirements. I'm pretty sure BRL-CAD doesn…

They do have STL files, which I understand are commonly used in 3D printing scenarios. We'll see if they decide to put up STEP and/or IGES files as well - that would be ideal. The …