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You're right, it's the biggest challenge. But a ton of companies do now have something like Anaconda in their official software catalogue and sometimes even an
by fzumstein 5y ago
You're right, it's the biggest challenge. But a ton of companies do now have something like Anaconda in their official software catalogue and sometimes even an internal mirror of PyPI or anaconda.org for the packages.
- mch82 5y ago> Does the book use any commercial software like xlwings PRO? No, the book uses exclusively software that is open source and free (except for Excel, of course). This is no longer technically true of Anaconda. They’ve adopted a new licensing approach that prevents employees of companies from using the free edition. Please consider adding alternative install instructions, based on PyPI and pipenv or poetry, to future versions of your book. This would help a ton of data scientists out! I’m looking forward to reading your book via O’Reilly! References: Discussion on r/Python with comments from the Anaconda CEO and team, https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/iqsk3y/anaconda_is_not_free_for_commercial_use_anymore/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/iqsk3y/anaconda_is_... Anaconda license change press release, https://www.anaconda.com/blog/anaconda-commercial-edition-faq https://www.anaconda.com/blog/anaconda-commercial-edition-fa... Anaconda Terms of Service, https://www.anaconda.com/terms-of-service https://www.anaconda.com/terms-of-service Edit: Here’s an interesting comment on the Reddit discussion from the Anaconda CEO suggesting that Miniconda can still be used with conda forge: “You can download Miniconda, and change your conda config to use conda forge, and the Terms of Service do not apply to that. The ToS only applies to commercial usage of the package repository of packages we build, at repo.anaconda.com; it does not apply to community-built and uploaded packages at anaconda.org.”, https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/iqsk3y/anaconda_is_not_free_for_commercial_use_anymore/gqdqrk9/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/iqsk3y/anaconda_is_...
- mch82 5y agoSide note… While Anaconda Inc.’s licensing approach is currently confusing/frustrating, they’re correct that open source sustainability is a challenge. Projects need financial support as well as volunteers. SciPy.org maintains Pandas, NumPy, Jupyter, iPython, Matplotlib, etc. They’ve buried a donation page on their website at… https://www.scipy.org/scipylib/donations.html https://www.scipy.org/scipylib/donations.html