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Postby dafpp » Sun Jun 10, 2012 8:51 pm

Hi, What do you think about free in the calculator world ? It is possible ? It is useless ? The open source concept actual is sufficient or not enough ?
I've my opinion about this subject, but i want to fight - understand - and just know what you think about this.

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Postby Eiyeron » Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:07 am

Why would that be impossible?
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Postby dafpp » Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:45 pm

Idk, some TI members said was useless and unrealistic.
What do you think ?

I want to understand the community and their aim.
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Postby helder7 » Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:26 pm

casio doesnt block native development in fx-cg10/20.
ti works hard to close their nspire calculators, and allow only native lua development.

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Postby heyy! » Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:15 am

dafpp wrote:Idk, some TI members said was useless and unrealistic.


You have the link to the dicussion ?

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Postby heyy! » Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:18 am

I think it's possible. We just need people interessed to do an open source calc (hardware + software).

Example : Arduino is open source, and works very well. Linux is used in the most majority of web servers, and is open source too.

To answer to "The open source concept actual is sufficient or not enough ?", in calc world, I think it is not enough yet.

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Postby dafpp » Wed Jun 13, 2012 7:19 am

helder7 wrote:casio doesnt block native development in fx-cg10/20.
ti works hard to close their nspire calculators, and allow only native lua development.

"Casio is like "android", more open and ti is like "Apple" with jailbreak, cat and mouse fight."


Sorry, french discusion:
http://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=9236&sid=10d224020cfebba2dd6e48abde3016b6&start=100#p124929
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Postby flyingfisch » Wed Jun 13, 2012 3:23 pm

I actually believe that it is useless and unrealistic to try to sell calculator programs. I also think it is selfish for calculator programmers to close their source. Open-source to me seems the most logical way to go.

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Postby Eiyeron » Wed Jun 13, 2012 3:37 pm

I agree with flyingfisch: no one will want to pay for a calculator program. and opening sourcing can help the newcomers to train, to learn from the other's code.
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Postby dafpp » Wed Jun 13, 2012 5:53 pm

helder7 wrote:casio doesnt block native development in fx-cg10/20.
ti works hard to close their nspire calculators, and allow only native lua development.

"Casio is like "android", more open and ti is like "Apple" with jailbreak, cat and mouse fight."


Here: http://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=9236&sid=4264cacda7ef5e083cdf0e492c55881d&start=100#p124929
"Les spécialistes commencent par n'apprendre que ce qu'ils aiment et
finissent par n'aimer que ce qu'ils ont appris." - Gilbert Cesbron.
"Si nous avons chacun un objet et que nous les echangeons, nous avons
chacun un objet. Si nous avons chacun une idée et que nous les
échangeons, nous avons chacun deux idées." - Proverbe Chinois.

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