Re: Mathematica 8 Home Edition
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- Subject: [mg116190] Re: Mathematica 8 Home Edition
- From: David Kirkby <drkirkby at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 01:41:33 -0500 (EST)
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On Feb 2, 11:07 am, Daniel Lichtblau <d... at wolfram.com> wrote: > AES wrote: > > In article <ii5rii$fi... at smc.vnet.net>, > > Murray Eisenberg <mur... at math.umass.edu> wrote: > > >> So far as I am aware, for a given version number, e.g., 8.0.0, the > >> regular (i.e., "Professional") edition = Home Edition = Student Edition > >> with respect to features. > > >> The two aspects that _may_ differ are: (1) kind of support provided by > >> Wolfram Research (beyond installation issues), and (2) whether some > >> special identification of the edition appears on printed pages. > > > And, the legal restrictions that you (purportedly!) agree to, and even > > commit others to, when you purchase and use the Home Edition. > > > Last time I looked at the fine print of these was several years ago, but > > my reaction at that time was that they were as extensive as they were > > dismaying as they were stupid as they were unenforceable. > > If you go to the order page, > > https://www.wolfram.com/securecheckout/?model=MHED100D&use_type=HomeEdition > > there is the following note > > "Mathematica Home Edition is a 32-bit program available for Windows > (XP/Vista/7), Mac OS X (Intel), and Linux. It is not licensed for > commercial, nonprofit, academic, or government use. For those who want > to integrate Mathematica into their teaching, research, or work, > Mathematica Professional is always available." > > There is a legalese version of this in the license agreement. In essence > it spells out that the product is solely for personal use and NOT for > commercial use. It is about as brief as the above; I'd show it, except I > only have it in a scanned pdf and I cannot cut-paste the text. > > Is this the point of controversy? I ask because, for a product being > discounted to around 15% of the professional price, these do not strike > me as especially onerous conditions. In particular, I've yet to see the > part about restrictions to which one would "commit others". Feel free to > enlighten me. > > Daniel Lichtblau > Wolfram Research So there is a technical restriction, with the home edition being 32- bit, not 64-bit as the professional version is. It was not entirely clear to me from times when I read this before (year + ago) if the 32-bit limitation was just for the Windows platform, or for Linux and OS X too. >From the quote you give above, it implies that the home editionis indeed 32-bit on all platforms.
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