William Stein wrote: > On Dec 10, 2007 10:17 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I'm guessing he wants something that looks professionally labeled and >>> maybe shrink-wrapped. What do you think? >>> >>> I could actually have some DVD's professionally printed up (it cost < >>> $5/per) >>> and shrink wrapped with printouts of the tutorial, and "sell" the >>> combination >>> for $19.99/each... but that would lead me down a road I really don't want >>> to go down. >>> >>> -- William >> I think this is a great idea. You can buy Debian disks, for example -- this >> sort of practice is all but encouraged in the GPL. We aren't going "for >> profit" or anything, but it provides an excellent way for people to donate >> to the Sage project. Also, we print some big "share with your friends & >> colleagues", "unlimited CPU license", "source code included" labels on 'em >> for fun. >> >> Also, on whatever website we sell the disks, offer free downloads. >> Besides the fact that I don't want to handle this personally, I think it's a >> great idea. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > See *that* is exactly the point. When I talked with one of the Maple founders > about why Maple started in the 1980's, it was precisely because the > mathematicians working on the software didn't want to duplicate tapes and > mail them around the country. We're no different.
Well, except that we're GPL, which seems like it would make a huge difference down the road of commercialization. -Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
