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I'm a contributor to Epsilon and Omega. It's too early to guess how much of a backlash this will generate, but calculator forums are extremely pissed right now.
by boricj 6y ago
I'm a contributor to Epsilon and Omega. It's too early to guess how much of a backlash this will generate, but calculator forums are extremely pissed right now. TI completely destroyed any goodwill they had remaining at this point.
I'm not sure how this will unfold, but they've pissed off a fair number of smart people that know their calculators inside and out. I expect jailbreaks, boycotts and people switching to other platforms fairly quickly.
- qubex 6y agoI find the NumWorks to be a lovely little calculator but Omega really needs to provide some serious symbolic (i.e. ‘CAS’) functionality. It’s all fair and square that the official Epsilon firmware doesn’t feature CAS to appease the examination boards, but it’s a feature that is pretty key for a more sophisticated crowd. No algebraic computation? No symbolic differentiation and integration?! That’s really quite disappointing.
- boricj 6y agoThere is support for giac as an external app, the port is named KhiCAS. Flash a firmware with external app support (Omega typically) and then use https://zardam.github.io/nw-external-apps/ https://zardam.github.io/nw-external-apps/ to transfer apps. Right now the current external app system is a glorified proof-of-concept when compared to the TI/Casio ecosystem, but it does work. One cannot distribute epsilon with giac integrated since their licenses are incompatible (GPL3 vs CC-BY-NC-SA), hence the external app workaround. NumWorks could negotiate a commercial license, but there has been no sign of this so far.