WebMath: Cubic equations (and MathWrite)

[Alan Cooper]

The main reason I never adopted MathWrite myself (despite having been
very impressed with some materials that I had seen made with MathKit)
was because it appeared that the "free reader" could only access
material in the proprietary MathWrite library and that to read material
not submitted to (and accepted by) the library would require each
student (or lab station) to pay an additional US$50 for the unrestricted
reader. Thus if  I compose using MathWrite my only effective puplic
distribution channel is through the MathWrite library and if I want to
prepare materials for my own students they each have to pay US$50 to
someone else in order to read what I write.

At first, when I read your posting, your reference to the "free reader"
led me to think that I had misremembered something or maybe your policy
had changed, but on checking your site I see that it's still the same.
This is very disappointing.

If I have misunderstood the situation, please clarify, and if not,
please consider changing your marketing strategy by making the
unrestricted reader freely downloadable.

sincerely,
                    Alan Cooper


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Alan Cooper (acooper at langara.bc.ca , http://www.langara.bc.ca/~acooper)
Dep't of Mathematics and Statistics (http://www.langara.bc.ca/mathstats)

Langara College        (http://www.langara.bc.ca )
100 W 49th Ave. Vancouver BC
Canada    V5Y2Z6       Tel(604)323-5676,Fax(604)323-5555
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