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Posted by critStock
Mar 15, 2010 at 05:14 PM
$130 ($90 academic). Still expensive, but not a couple hundred. (Just in the interests of accuracy!)
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Mar 15, 2010 at 10:09 PM
Just in the interests of accuracy, to use your words, I stand by what I wrote.
What I wrote was in response to your post describing the program, and noting that one required Mathematica in order to run it.
So if it is $130 (I do not have access to academic pricing) to purchase A WorkLife FrameWork?, and I have to purchase Mathematica to run it, I am going to have to expend more than $200 by a long shot.
So I was inaccurate neither in the context you had presented nor in the context of my personal situation, not being fortunate to have Mathematica.
In the interests of accuracy,
Daly
critStock wrote:
>$130 ($90 academic). Still expensive, but not a couple hundred. (Just in the
>interests of accuracy!)
Posted by critStock
Mar 17, 2010 at 04:04 AM
Daly de Gagne wrote:
>So I
>was inaccurate neither in the context you had presented nor in the context of my
>personal situation, not being fortunate to have Mathematica.
Your context, as you describe it, requires $130 + $300 for Mathematica, $430 total. This is far from a couple hundred. In my context (academic), Mathematica is free (site license), and WorkLife is $90, for a total of $90, also far from $200. “A couple hundred” is pretty inaccurate in both contexts, actually.
Posted by tightbeam
Mar 17, 2010 at 12:07 PM
I hope this otherwise interesting thread isn’t going to devolve into a pissing contest.
I don’t think anyone really cares about the actual dollar amount for software that few of us are going to buy.
Posted by critStock
Mar 17, 2010 at 12:51 PM
@bobmclain: Good point about the pissing contest. My sentiments exactly. However, issues of tone aside, I don’t think it’s fair to say that accurately stating the price of something is somehow out of bounds or irrelevant. It’s the tone that was off, not the content.
Cheers,
David