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From: Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks>
Subject: Another Commercial Fraud Has Left Its Users In The Lurch
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I was viewing a YouTube video (via yt-dlp of course) about differential
forms.  The author was using software called "Scientific Workplace."
I decided to check it out.

SW is just another cheap GUI wrapper around the open-source LaTeX
plus other stuff.  However, the commercial company, after 40 years,
is now bankrupt and out of business.  All of its users are now in the
lurch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_WorkPlace

Who would ever entrust their work to a commercial enterprise that
is always in danger of going bust?  Even Adobe Photoshop could one
day soon collapse into nothing.

For scientific markup, if you need a GUI, just use Lyx, TeXmacs,
or WxMaxima.

FOSS projects can also become abandoned but with a large enough
user base and the available source code longevity is much more
assured.

-- 
Systemd: solving all the problems that you never knew you had.