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(05-14-2015 06:55 PM)iconmaster Wrote:  The market controls the standards. And that market is the educators, not people like I. I mean, the College Board deals with calculators only to regulate what features may or may not be usable on tests, for instance.

Perhaps you miss part of my point, which was that each country should have control on what they put in their curriculum. With the current trends in calculators (test mode), only a few country (if not only one) have some control over calculators companies. Moreover this is controled from above, there is no more room for innovation from the bottom.

Quote:The vast majority of people who will buy (or enforce the buying of) calculators these days are people who do not want you to be able to install Khicas. Using Khicas could be considered cheating if someone expected you to have a non-CAS NSpire, so TI wants you to not exist.

Of course TI does not want my program to exist, I did not write it for them :-) I wrote it for people who can afford a non-CAS calc but not a CAS calc. The price difference in France is about 40 euros (non-CAS 129 euros, CAS 169 euros).

Quote:Sure, it's your freedom to modify the device. But no matter how much you try to exercise this freedom, calculators will only become less free in the future.

If everybody resigns on freedom and equality, then this will certainly happen. But why should we resign?