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>so unless you are suggesting that loading Mathematica onto the Pi will, in fact, destroy it, I don't see any merit to this analogy That's not really how you r
by mistercow 13y ago
>so unless you are suggesting that loading Mathematica onto the Pi will, in fact, destroy it, I don't see any merit to this analogy
That's not really how you refute an analogy. In any analogy, you can find differences, but not all differences are relevant. You could say "Mathematica isn't made of wood", or "Mathematica isn't full of soldiers", but these differences don't weaken the analogy.
You have to look at the claimed similarity (in this case, ulterior motives) and show a difference that conflicts with that claim.
You have failed to do this, and so your refutation falls flat.
- hyperbovine 13y agoThe Greeks could not 'apt-get uninstall --purge' the Trojan Horse. QED.
- tomrod 13y agoThe Trojans could--just set the wood horse aflame.
- kyzyl 13y agoQED... as in, "I've demonstrated what I wanted to say, regardless of what the original claim was." OP was talking about fearing the 'gift' because it might be a ploy to get you data-locked into Wolfram's cloud suite, or some other kind of bait-and-switch. As in, there might be unforeseen consequences of embracing this offering. I don't think there was any implication that we might not be able to uninstall Mathematica. I think it's an apt analogy.
- mistercow 13y agoMy fellow bovine friend, you're now misinterpreting the analogy (and Greek mythology, but I assume you mistyped and meant "the Trojans" and not "the Greeks"). In the analogy, Troy is not a single person's computer. Troy is the software ecosystem. Consider Microsoft's old "embrace, extend, and extinguish" strategy, which devastated the PC software ecosystem in the 90s. Was that problem solved by individual users uninstalling Microsoft's products? Of course not. Recovering from that destruction was a far more difficult and grueling process which isn't quite finished even today.