October 05, 2005
The Man with Two Mathematicas
Two days ago, I bought a copy of "Mathematica 5.2 For Students" from the campus bookstore for $150 after tax. This is the same software that sells for around $2000 after tax to non-students. It's a fantastic package, and I'm happy I bought it. However, yesterday, after having already installed a copy on my home's dual G5, I tried to install a copy on my PowerBook. Wolfram's licencing scheme doesn't allow that: I could either buy their $100/year "Premium Support" contract, which would allow me to run other copies on other nodes, or buy another copy. If I'd paid full boat for the original copy, that might have made sense, but at the student discount, it made more sense to actually buy another package entirely. FYI for science and engineering students.
Posted by Russell Whitaker at October 5, 2005 02:34 PM | TrackBackhm, i wonder how cheaply one could qualify as a student ... if one didn't mind being tracked (yet again) by Big Brother.
Posted by: Anton on October 11, 2005 10:56 AMYou should have contacted their customer service and claimed that your computer crashed and you needed to do a reinstall on a new one, they would give you instructions on how to do it.
Posted by: Steve on November 3, 2005 09:07 AMI appreciate the suggestion, but I would not have been comfortable doing that: their rules... I accept them or I don't use the software.
Posted by: Russell Whitaker on November 3, 2005 09:12 AMI had exactly the same issue. I think it's utterly ridiculous that Wolfram thinks they should be able to tell me which of my computers I run my software on. It certainly doesn't cost them any more, so why should it cost me double? Their licensing is clearly intended to discourage you from sharing the software with a friend, but I just want to be able to use it on two machines, one at a time of course. So... I just installed it on a second computer anyway. It's actually quite easy if you know where to look.
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