Commercial vs Free Computer Algebra Systems
Date: July 20th (Saturday)
Time: 11:22.5-11:45
Abstract
Today, the two or three leading computer algebra systems are commercial.
However, in some other fields, some leading products are free systems, for example gcc for
compilers, gnu-emacs for editors, TeX for (scientific) text processing. In this talk, we will
try to figure out the reasons (if any) why the situation is different for computer algebra
systems, and try to guess what the future market of symbolic computation will be.
