
please wait
I'm even thinking of buying it because it's much more convenient to have it on your own PC - and with 150€ for students the price isn't that outrageous |
Mathematica is clearly evil because it makes a wealthy part of the population locked in to their ultra-mega-expensive software. |
Financial and infrastructure support(SAGE) - Enthought, Inc, Google, Microsoft Research (generously funding a native port of Sage to Microsoft Windows (2008)), The Heilbronn Institute and University of Bristol, National Science Foundation (US), University of Washington, Mary Gates Scholarship, Glenn Tarbox, Sun Microsystems, U.S. Department of Defense(!) <- didn't know about that!, Metamodul, Blastwave.org, GCC Compile Farm Project, The Beatrice Yormark Fund for Women in Mathematics (workshop sponsors): -MSRI, IPAM, Clay Mathematics Institute, Conseil Régional, Université Lorraine, Communauté Urbaine du Grand Nancy, University Nancy 1 Henri Poincaré, NRIA, GDR IM, Clay Mathematics Institute, MIT, Universités Aix-Marseille: I, II, III, CIRM (<-big guys) Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques, FRUMAM, LIF Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Marseille, CNRS, National Science Foundation, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, GTEM under European Commission, Lorentz Center |
about 3 times the price of a book for students |
Microsoft Research is generously funding a native port of Sage to Microsoft Windows (2008). |
Having to run a virtual machine just to use a mathematics program is preposterous |
Do they mean to tell me it's so hard to write cross-platform code that it's easier to just waste your users' resources? |