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> Sometimes a Symbolica license key is needed on a machine that is not connected to the internet. For this purpose, an offline key that is valid for 24 hours ca
by Y_Y 3y ago
> Sometimes a Symbolica license key is needed on a machine that is not connected to the internet. For this purpose, an offline key that is valid for 24 hours can be generated from a valid license key on a machine that is connected to the internet.
Even Mathematica doesn't pull shit like that.
- SPACECADET3D 3y agoAuthor of Symbolica here: this may change in the future. Note that it is easy to do this, you just call the function from symbolica import \* set_license_key('YOUR_KEY') print(get_offline_license_key())
- Y_Y 3y agoHi. Nice work, I'm really glad to see a new CAS and this is an area that is close to my heart. The problem I have isn't so much that it's difficult to jump through the licensing hoops (although anything is more difficult that not using licenses), it is that you put restrictions on the user of the software that your competitors don't have. I make closed-source commercial software at my dayjob, I understand you want to get paid. The trouble is that a featureful CAS either takes decades to build by hand (e.g. Axiom) it relies on a huge amount of FOSS libraries (e.g. Sage), or both (e.g. Mathematica). Making me "phone home" to check I'm up to date on my subscription to some algebra manipulation algorithms is a non-starter, especially when even a PhD student has to pay. (I know you have a single-threaded free version, but that didn't make much sense when your USP is speed.)
- tverbeure 2y agoIsn't this one of those cases where those who do it right get punished and others don't?
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