Re: "beta" is a reach, but....

viper-2 wrote:
On Aug 3, 10:46 am, Kenny <kentil...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
viper-2 wrote:

I presume your algebra tutor is free as in freedom?
You lost me.

Free as in Freedom, not as in beer.

I know all that and your question still confuses me. :)


Definition and Wikipedia article
here:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software

See Vassil Nikolov's neat quote "Free Programmers, Bound Variables".
Of course, when I download the software, the licence will tell.

heh-heh, that reminds me of something else I have to do very soon.

But a light dawns: this is a proprietary binary release for now, no code so def not GPL (which is what I think you meant by "free" <g>). I am open to other business models that might put food on my table, but for now this is a classic commercial product. free download and free to use until October 1st, and then a per user per year fee or something thereafter, ala Worlds of Warcraft (tho that and other such things such as Chess applications are monthly -- I just do not plan to charge enough to justify monthly.

hth, kenny

ps. Fun development note: a couple of days ago I signed off with "first I have teach my software that x-y-z is -z-y+-x. After an hour of study I concluded that what the app needed was an equivalence test dedicated to sums to help the generic type-driven equivalence code. I went looking for a blank spot in my document to add it, I found I had written it several months ago, and the test case left in the test chamber was... I'll let you all guess. :)

pps. Thomas! How did you get into that loop? Or did it just silently crash? I was prescient enough to write crashes out to the database, but not enough to record the whole problem. Fixing that now. k
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