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In the time before Mathematica, mathermatics was non-proprietary and open source.
by oneJob 11y ago
In the time before Mathematica, mathermatics was non-proprietary and open source.
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- hga 11y agoNo so in the case of Macsyma and Wolfram's own SMP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram#Symbolic_Manipulation_Program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram#Symbolic_Manip...): "Wolfram led the development of the computer algebra system SMP (Symbolic Manipulation Program) in the Caltech physics department during 1979–1981. A dispute with the administration over the intellectual property rights regarding SMP—patents, copyright, and faculty involvement in commercial ventures—eventually caused him to resign from Caltech. It's not infamous enough, but Symbolics managed to arrange to solely license Macsyma, as far as we could tell to keep it out of everyone else's hands. Wikipedia seems to be accurate in this section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macsyma#Commercialization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macsyma#Commercialization based on my communications with Danny Hillis after the sole licencing when I was working for LMI (which also was selling SMP), working for Gold Hill in 1984, and working for Joel Moses in the late '80s (he was indeed none too happy about how MIT had treated him WRT to Macsyma).