Hi,
All good reasonable points. I guess the call here is whether charging companies and government institutions for the bundle will have a small enough deterrent effect on those trying out scientific python to be an insignificant barrier to its uptake,
To the contrary, we've found that it reduces the hesitation of these institutions to adopt Python substantially. IT departments *hate* deploying dozens of random things from various internet sources with no support.
With the bundle - yes of course. I mean, if the bundle becomes the defacto standard for deploying python, numpy etc, and the charges worry people, then they may be less likely to try it. I've no idea whether that will be a big factor - I guess it's difficult to say. Matthew