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Local Development Tools for Python Programming
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Anaconda licensing change #4

Open david-lippert opened 3 months ago

david-lippert commented 3 months ago

Not sure what our approach is for teaching Anaconda if it is no longer freely available. https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/anaconda_puts_the_squeeze_on/

david-lippert commented 3 months ago

From Zach Chandler of the Stanford OSPO:

OK, so there are 3 contravening themes that argue against paying up:

  1. This message from anaconda.org cofounder, clarifying the news: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7229549723462905856/
  2. Fully open, community based alternatives, like https://conda-forge.org/ which is not the same thing, have distros that many teams need via miniforge
  3. Some of our RSEs say the GUI is a crutch and prevents people from learning important skills, that important features are only available via CLI, and they advocate for steering people away from acaconda.org (vocal minority)
s2t2 commented 3 months ago

I think this only applies to anaconda.org distributions?

Anaconda.org allows anyone to distribute their conda and standard Python packages to the world.

Not too familiar with those. I only use anaconda for virtual environments.

labarba commented 3 months ago

Please see the reply from CEO Peter Wang https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pzwang_hi-everyone-recently-there-has-been-discussion-activity-7229549723462905856-rQH-

labarba commented 3 months ago

TL;DR "Anaconda's installers & package repos are free for teaching, learning, and research at accredited educational institutions worldwide."

labarba commented 3 months ago

Some of our RSEs say the GUI is a crutch and prevents people from learning important skills, that important features are only available via CLI…

This is BS.