Steven, On Thursday 17 November 2005 15:53, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
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This makes me curious about who you are or represent,
I'm just a reformed juvenile delinquent who gave up drugs for math, computers and physics.
Yeah, I suppose there's a lot of that going around... I hope math tickles your brain in a suitably pleasant manner.
what has been the nature of Wolfram Research's largesse towards you and / or your organization and why it was granted.
I purchased an upgrade to Mathematica a couple days before the next version was released. They let me get the second $250 upgrade for free. There have been other cases where they have been pleasant to do business with.
Of course, the public face displayed by the business entity Wolfram Research is one thing, while that of Wolfram himself is another thing entirely. And that sort of thing is not particularly generous or exceptional. Many companies will do similar things (though I doubt the heartless Duff... I mean Microsoft corporation would do the same).
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I don't know why you'd assume that. I cannot and do not pretend to know how you feel about Novell,
I thought that would be clear from the discussions regarding the KDE, and the fact that I have advocated supporting them, and trying to do what we can to improve their cash flow so that they aren't forced to cut people, and/or projects.
I didn't connect this thread with any others to which you may have posted. To be honest, I've been at best skimming all the stuff that's transpired since the "announcement" about KDE's place in the Novell Linux lineup.
Steven
Randall Schulz