"Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> wrote in message <k86f2q$fkc$1@speranza.aioe.org>...
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> It is really annoying. Mathematica has everything in the kernel. No
> toolboxes to worry about. I wish Mathworks would fix this old
> broken policy. They can raise the price a little and sell one system and
> have everything in one box.
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> Being too greedy is not a good thing. There are many other options
> now out there other than Matlab.
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Dunno. I can believe that the development effort of all the toolboxes is many times that of core MATLAB, and some of those toolboxes I know I don't need and don't want to be forced to pay for. I do sometimes wonder, though, whether core MATLAB should cost ~$1000/license, but I don't have an educated way of appraising that.![]()
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> It is really annoying. Mathematica has everything in the kernel. No
> toolboxes to worry about. I wish Mathworks would fix this old
> broken policy. They can raise the price a little and sell one system and
> have everything in one box.
>
> Being too greedy is not a good thing. There are many other options
> now out there other than Matlab.
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Dunno. I can believe that the development effort of all the toolboxes is many times that of core MATLAB, and some of those toolboxes I know I don't need and don't want to be forced to pay for. I do sometimes wonder, though, whether core MATLAB should cost ~$1000/license, but I don't have an educated way of appraising that.