Re: Opportunities and Player Pro
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- Subject: [mg104402] Re: Opportunities and Player Pro
- From: Jon McLoone <jonm at wolfram.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:20:09 -0500 (EST)
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On Oct 29, 7:59 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 cualesquiera > da=F1os que puedan resultar de una transmision de virus. This would be a good application of the free Mathematica Player. Player is not just for powering http://demonstrations.wolfram.com If the material is supplementary to the book (IE freely available), then it could be converted freely for use on Player at http://www.wolfram.com/solutions/interactivedeployment/publish/ If the content is to be sold, then you would need to talk to Wolfram Research about a special license to use it commercially. But this could be a one time as part of publishing, and not something that the end user need know or care about. For the end user, it would just be part of the book. Apart from this licensing difference, the differences between Mathematica Player and Mathematica Player Pro would probably not matter to the project you describe. They are listed at http://www.wolfram.com/solutions/interactivedeployment/compare.html Jon McLoone