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From: "Nasser Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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"D. Ismay" 
<nospam@WooHoo.WooHooHoo.WooHoo.WooHooHoo.HOOHOO.hoohoo.WooHoo.WooHooHoo> 
wrote in message news:13t5er6ckgv6s68@corp.supernews.com...

>
> exactly how do you know TMW  necessarily seek to penalize students?
>

TMW does not penalize students.  However, some people forget that there is 
now Mathematica out there which pretty much does everything that Matlab does 
(and many of the functions that one needs a toolbox to access in Matlab, 
comes pre-installed as standard in Mathematica), with the only difference is 
that with Mathematica there is no student and non-student version. There is 
only ONE Mathematica, but if you are a student, you can buy it at a student 
price on the same day it comes out. The student price of Matlab and 
Mathematica is pretty much the same.

This is the difference.  I can buy Mathematica latest version the day it 
comes out at a student price since I am a student, and do not have to wait 
for more than a year before as the case with matlab waiting for TMW to give 
me the privilege to buy its latest products as a student.

It is clear there is no technical reason at all TMW have to hold its product 
for a year before allowing the students the honor of using the latest Matlab 
version. It is just all marketing and dollar driven. TMW is just being short 
sighted in its actions towards students. It always has. They do not see that 
as more students move to other software (such as Mathematica and others 
which treat students with more respect), Matlab will slowly lose users with 
time.

Nasser