Re: Opportunities and Player Pro
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- Subject: [mg104396] Re: Opportunities and Player Pro
- From: telefunkenvf14 <rgorka at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:19:01 -0500 (EST)
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On Oct 29, 2:59 am, "E. Martin-Serrano" <eMartinSerr... at telefonica.net> wrote: > I wish to join the opinion already expressed here on that WRI should provide > the means to make available to people, in general, any products developed > with Mathematica, allowing to manipulate all or most of the dynamic > graphics and other stuff in them. The lack of this free tool which would > make possible wide distribution of these materials severely restricts the > opportunities to use Mathematica for many purposes. > > It is true that Mathematica Player Pro is already available, and that it is > the professional platform for running interactive Mathematica applications > and documents and for interacting with reports and documents. It is also > true that, Player Pro is an application delivery system and that it can > be used to deliver tools, and so on. But, in the end, all this is > restricted to a closed and, to certain extent, comparatively tiny community > of already Player Pro users. > > But think about, say, a book on some scientific and technical matter, meant > to be distributed in many countries, written in Spanish, English, Russian, > French, German, Arabic, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, and others. Let us > suppose that it is an outstanding book targeted to a wide spectrum of > persons and institutions: including academics, professionals, and students; > plus people in general too. And, let suppose that the authors are > considering including in the book, as an addendum, the sort of dynamic > graphics and some other computational material that Mathematica could > provide. > > Taking apart the fact that some potential purchasers of the book would > actually be current Mathematica users; does anyone really think that it > makes any sense including Mathematica as an important tool for the project > and tied it to a preexistent and closed community of already Player Pro > users? > > I would really like to be in a situation of defending the Mathematica way > since I believe it would be nearly the best one, both for readers (including > students) and lecturers; but I cannot. It seems that for projects like this > there is a long way to go yet. > > E. Martin-Serrano > > _________________________________________ > > This e-mail and the documents attached are confidential and intended > solely for the addressee; it may also be privileged. If you receive > this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy it. > As its integrity cannot be secured on the Internet, E. Mart=EDn-Serrano > liability cannot be triggered for the message content. Although > the sender endeavours to maintain a computer virus-free network, > the sender does not warrant that this transmission is virus-free and > will not be liable for any damages resulting from any virus transmitted. > > Este mensaje y los ficheros adjuntos pueden contener informacion > confidencial > destinada solamente a la(s) persona(s) mencionadas anteriormente > pueden estar protegidos por secreto profesional. > Si usted recibe este correo electronico por error, gracias por informar > inmediatamente al remitente y destruir el mensaje. > Al no estar asegurada la integridad de este mensaje sobre la red, E. > Mart=EDn-Serrano no se hace responsable por su contenido. Su contenido no > constituye ningun > compromiso para el remitente, salvo ratificacion escrita por ambas partes. > Aunque se esfuerza al maximo por mantener su red libre de virus, el emisor > no puede garantizar nada al respecto y no sera responsable de cualesquier a > da=F1os que puedan resultar de una transmision de virus. I just wish WRI would provide me with the PlayerPro licenses promised when I signed up for Premier service... (Their response: Oh, well that's not included with *Student* premier service. My reply: You don't make any such distiction prior to purchasing premier service.) Student buyers beware, I guess. -RG
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