barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) (11/22/90)
Taken from the Mathematica mailing list: >From: "George A. Lippert" <glippert@dale.cts.com> >Now that NeXT, Inc. has decided to unbundle Mathematica (except for academic >purchasers) the Sales Department at Wolfram tells me that they are considering >charging $1295 for Mathematica for the NeXT machine. I think this price is too >high. It is out of line with the cost of the machine, $4995. Yeah, that sounds pretty steep to me too! Someone should tell WRI to analyze the following equation in Mathematica: Many_NeXTSs + Free_Educational_Copy + Expensive_General_Price = Lots_of_Pirated_Software -- Barry Merriman UCLA Dept. of Math UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)