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> Sigh. I dream of Mathematica being open source. I dream of a world where people don't compulsively fantasize that for any given piece of software, it should
by onan_barbarian 14y ago
> Sigh. I dream of Mathematica being open source.
I dream of a world where people don't compulsively fantasize that for any given piece of software, it should be supplanted by some other piece of software whose main differentiating feature is that it's a FOSS clone.
- zackzackzack 14y agoI have no problem shelling out the money for the (student) license. I've worked at Wolfram and I could probably swing a free license anyway. There are already a variety of clones out there that can do some of what Mathematica already does. d3 and javascript can replicate some of the manipulate work. I mean, look at session: https://github.com/kovasb/session https://github.com/kovasb/session Mathematica being open source would mean that I could look at the source though and see what the hell is going on inside. I'd love to see how they are doing call outs to R and trace through all the interactions between the kernel, the user interface, and W|A. If it were open source, I could see the implementations of all the Mathematical algorithms and look at all the neat optimizations and new results they have found during their work. I care about the "math in Mathematica and am interested in seeing how it all works.
- lshifr 14y agoAll source code of RLink is available. The Java part is LGPL, and the Mathematica part is not, but is located at /SystemFiles/Links/RLink/RLink.m