I don't understand why don't they AGPL the thing already. It makes no sense.
Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
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Re: Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't that a common thing for commercial products that are provided for free to students, open source projects, non-profit organisations etc.? You have to prove that you're going to use it for what the license allows.
Perhaps I’m being a stickler for language, but I don’t consider it “free for open source projects” if I have to contact them to get permission to use it in an open source project. My beef is that the word “free” is being thrown around in this article. They should say something more true, like “we provide this engine for experimental personal use at no charge, and if you want to use it for something serious (open sour…
A stickler for language should know that free is ambiguous in English, and their use of ”free” as ”zero cost” is correct. Gratis vs. libre and all that.
Re: Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
#33Sounds reasonable, although I think this term in the license will discourage many people: “Audit You will maintain accurate records of Your use of the Free Engine sufficient to show compliance with these Terms and Conditions, and Wolfram will have the right to audit such records to confirm compliance therewith. Upon written notice of an audit from Wolfram, You shall respond within ten (10) business days.” https://www…
Is this anything more than keeping version control and responding if challenged with 'git log?'
Nope: "use of the engine" is much more than "what I programmed in it", as far as I understand.
Read in a very stringent sense it is tantamount to keeping a "laboratory log", which is much much more complex than git.
(What about some computations you used to help somebody out of your project?).
Re: Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
#34Hahaha. This is ridiculous. “Free wolfram”. Wolfram appears to be out of wit exploring dead end strategies. The company isn’t doing so good after all.
Re: Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
#35The user who submitted this is blatantly part of the clan
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't care that it's not open source, it's a unique technology. Actual algorithms solving actual problems correctly . None of that fuzzy search that you'd get if you used Google. It's an amazing tool in its domain.
lol it's not unique maxima has existed for ages, maple has very similar fatures
Can you explain which features are similar? I am not an expert, but I suspect you are discounting some significant features of Wolfram.
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#37Wolfram is looking for publicity on hackernews isn’t new but getting very tired of this spam .
Re: Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't care that it's not open source, it's a unique technology. Actual algorithms solving actual problems correctly . None of that fuzzy search that you'd get if you used Google. It's an amazing tool in its domain.
My problem with it being closed-source is that it doesn't form a stable platform for my work. If they decide to change their product in incompatible ways in the future, I'm sunk. I have no recourse, I cannot fix the problem if it goes deep enough, and there are no other implementations. I learned this lesson (albeit from a distance) when Microsoft killed off Visual Basic 6 and replaced it with Visual Basic .Net.
I agree. Plus, you can't peer into the layers underneath your software – if I'm writing code in Python or R, everything underneath me is there for inspection, if needed.
A closed source solution, where all you have is documentation (potentially flawed), including manually authored change information, just feels archaic at this point.
Re: Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't care that it's not open source, it's a unique technology. Actual algorithms solving actual problems correctly . None of that fuzzy search that you'd get if you used Google. It's an amazing tool in its domain.
lol it's not unique maxima has existed for ages, maple has very similar fatures
Some things that Wolfram Language does that maxima doesn't: machine learning, image processing, audio processing, time series analysis, user interface construction, build-in data, geo computation, natural language processing....
Maxima is just a computer algebra system- one small part of what Wolfram does.
Re: Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
#40It doesn't seem to have a notebook interface.
Maybe someone can hook this into Jupyter as a Wolfram kernel?