Sujet : Another Commercial Fraud Has Left Its Users In The Lurch
De : ff (at) *nospam* linux.rocks (Farley Flud)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacy comp.os.linux.misc comp.os.linux.hardaweSuivi-à : comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 23. Mar 2025, 15:37:24
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I was viewing a YouTube video (via yt-dlp of course) about differential
forms. The author was using software called "Scientific Workplace."
I decided to check it out.
SW is just another cheap GUI wrapper around the open-source LaTeX
plus other stuff. However, the commercial company, after 40 years,
is now bankrupt and out of business. All of its users are now in the
lurch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_WorkPlaceWho would ever entrust their work to a commercial enterprise that
is always in danger of going bust? Even Adobe Photoshop could one
day soon collapse into nothing.
For scientific markup, if you need a GUI, just use Lyx, TeXmacs,
or WxMaxima.
FOSS projects can also become abandoned but with a large enough
user base and the available source code longevity is much more
assured.
-- Systemd: solving all the problems that you never knew you had.
Another Commercial Fraud Has Left Its Users In The Lurch