<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Mike Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbmiller%2Bl@gmail.com">mbmiller+l@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Adam Morris wrote:<br>
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> I've also used proprietary products that I'm still desparately searching<br>
> for a good FOSS replacement for, but that is another discussion<br>
> altogether.<br>
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I know about that. Right now I don't use Mathematica, or have much of a<br>
need for it, but I don't think anything out there can do what Mathematica<br>
does, not at that level, so I could still see myself using it or<br>
recommending it to my son, but I would proceed cautiously, always trying<br>
to use free software to do the same work whenever the free software could<br>
do it.<br></blockquote><br><div><br>There are FOSS software suites out there that aim squarely at Mathematica.<br>(Octave? Sage perhaps?) I think Mathematica is still the BSD of math packages<br>though. And the B in BSD stands for Big, not Berkeley. See "Liar's Poker". <br>
(The Book). <br><br>-Rob<br> <br></div></div>