Wolfram Language and Mathematica Free on Every Raspberry Pi

Post by jmugan » Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 7:32 PM UTC

hiddencost wrote: post #13

Aardwolf wrote: post #8

What exactly is the boundary between commercial and non-commercial use? E.g. say you make an educational video that contains a portion of using Mathematica on RPI, and you could get ads income, is that indirect or direct commercial use? What if you use it to compute dimensions of some woodworking art piece that you sell later? What if you make a scientific or mathematical discovery thanks to it that you later use in…

The zeroeth boundary is "what your conscience will enforce." The first boundary is "what Wolfram is willing to enforce". The second boundary is "what a judge is willing to enforce". Likely the 0th boundary will kick in before the other two. If too many people misuse this, Wolfram may decide it was a bad idea and end the program. In practical terms, an overwhelming percentage of revenue comes from large institutions.…

Post by II2II » Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 7:46 PM UTC

qwerty456127 wrote: post #106

The fact it's free is really cool but the choice to limit this to Raspberry Pi is rather weird because Raspberry Pis are painfully slow (can't even navigate YouTube comfortably) and even fairly hard to acquire in the first place. They should rather make it free for all individual non-commercial tinkerer no matter the hardware they use. I believe this would ensure popularity sustainability and the raspberry-only way m…

Post by bee_rider » Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 7:59 PM UTC

NikolaNovak wrote: post #49

Dalewyn wrote: post #31

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Linux quickly becomes a quagmire of impracticality once you dare to step outside of the distro-provided or -recommended repositories, so much I would argue it's functionally a walled garden at that point. By contrast, on Windows you can install, run, upgrade, and downgrade whatever you want whenever you want however you want without sacrificing practicality.

I actually think you have a point. Linux is far less of a walled garden in principle . And it seems a lot of people are assuming "walled garden" is a statement from developers perspective (no cost license or difficulty in developing for platform). I think what you're saying though is that your choices and options are far easier and wider with windows as a regular user, than with Linux, and if so I see your point. I'v…

Post by mycall » Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 8:50 PM UTC

yccs27 wrote: post #108

danuker wrote: post #22

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Could you illustrate some footguns of Mathematica/Wolfram Language?

The error handling is atrocious. The language isn‘t just untyped - everything that‘s not defined is symbolic, and builtins will silently operate on symbolic expessions even if you don‘t expect them to. Consider this: myfunc[x_] := {2*x, 3*x}; myfnuc[5][[1]] Without the 'fnuc' typo, this would create the list {10, 15} and take the first part, giving 10. With the typo, it returns 5 without warning. Why? myfnuc[5] is no…

Post by deely3 » Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 10:01 PM UTC

teknopaul wrote: post #46

323 wrote: post #35

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What does it mean then that Windows is a walled garden? That it can only run Windows software? How is then Linux also not a walled garden?

You don't have to pay anyone to sign a driver you write to use it yourself. With Windows you can write some software, but not all software. You have to pay Microsoft to sign drivers. The code that enforces that is the wall. No such code exists in a Linux. All is possible.