Wolfram Research Inc. Does the Right Thing

You have probably never heard of Wolfram Research, Inc. They're a software house which produces "Mathematica", a very complex and capable tool for performing and visualizing math operations. Mathematica is the standard in it's field, though there are both proprietary and FOSS competitors.

Mathematica is expensive, as this article by my friend, Waleed al-Shobakky, shows. In order to aid learning in the Arab regions of the world, Wolfram is making Mathematica available at incredibly low prices; something like ten bucks a pop for learning institiutions. That is about 1% of retail!

The article is a nice read about a company definitely into doing the right thing.

Before too long, we will have Waleed on the show to talk about computing in the developing world.

Jack