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I'm confused. The lead developer up until 2 years ago, Angus Griffith's LinkedIn says he's at Google. [0] In April 2016, Angus replied to a comment of mine "M
by delhanty 7y ago
I'm confused.
The lead developer up until 2 years ago, Angus Griffith's LinkedIn says he's at Google. [0]
In April 2016, Angus replied to a comment of mine "Mathics is still maintained. There are currently two of us working on it. The last release was v0.9 in March this year." [1].
The original creator Jan Pöschko's GitHub profile states "JavaScripter making the notebook interface of wolframcloud.com" [2]. His bulk contributions to Mathics stopped in 2012, but he still makes sporadic contributions to Mathics - see here he merged a pull request March 2019 [3] - suggests Wolfram tolerate the existence of Mathics because it's not a serious threat.
As the creator of Sage, what's your opinion of the legal risks of creating a Mathematica syntax compatible clone like Mathics in the light of Wolfram Research's fairly aggressive assertion of its IP "rights"?
[0] https://www.linkedin.com/in/angus-griffith-093433b0/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/angus-griffith-093433b0/
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11465064 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11465064
[2] https://github.com/poeschko https://github.com/poeschko
[3] https://github.com/mathics/Mathics/commits?author=poeschko&since=2019-02-28&until=2019-03-31 https://github.com/mathics/Mathics/commits?author=poeschko&s...
- bloaf 7y agoI'm going to posit that Mathematica knows that its value proposition is not its syntax.
- delhanty 7y agoTotally agree with that sentiment. It's all the other stuff too. What I'm saying is that a syntax compatible Mathematica clone, with all the other stuff too, ever took off, then Wolfram Research's playbook would be: 1. try and hire the lead developers. 2. if that failed, call in their lawyers and assert their IP rights over the syntax.
- sn6uv 7y agoYes, that's roughly accurate. Jan Pöschko (the creator of Mathics) went to Wolfram in 2012 and I went to Google at the end of 2016. Since then it's been largely unmaintained as I don't have the time to work on it unfortunately
- delhanty 7y agoThanks for the clarification Angus - appreciated.