The actuel Prime future...

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(05-14-2015 06:08 AM)parisse Wrote:  This however raises the question : who control the education standards?
If the calcs remain locked, then it's TI, Casio and HP. Of course they take care of a few curriculum (the US mainly and a few inputs from other countries so that these countries governements believe they can change things).

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.

(05-14-2015 06:08 AM)parisse Wrote:  It's a bad thing. We should fight against that, it's our freedom, we should control what we have paid for and not let other people decide what should be in a calc and what should not be. I'm not in a position to do anything for the HP Prime, but I made an attempt with Khicas on the TI Nspire, so that people buying a non-CAS nspire can run a CAS in their calculator.

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.

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.