[Axiom-developer] Re: OpenAxiom-1.2.1 released

[Aleksej Saushev]

TimDaly <address@hidden> writes:

> On Apr 5, 7:18 am, ferrat <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I installed Axiom but can't graph because at the end there is an error 
>> message about something in the /root directory.
>>
>> Then I tried OpenAxiom and this version works, so I'm staying with OpenAxiom.
>>
>> What's the difference between Axiom and OpenAxiom?
>
> One of the fundamental problems with forking is that people can be
> confused about the original projects and the forks. It is important
> that this does not happen. The Axiom project is the original project.
> OpenAxiom is a fork started around the September 2007 time frame.

As I understand it, you could easily prevent forking by pushing Axiom to
user more actively, it could have the functionality of OpenAxiom or FriCAS,
but it has lost the momentum. From user point of view the confusion is
of no importance as long as one of forks works and another one does not.


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