I just had this funny thought:
People come up the aisle from the Maple/Matlab/Magma/Mathematica booths to the Sage booth asking, "So how much does your software cost?" After talking with them for a few minutes about what the important questions in math software are and giving them a free DVD, they walk back down the aisle to the M* booths and ask "So how open is your software?" I suppose it's a little like Tim says about helping change the rules of the game by changing the questions that are asked. Not that we are treating the M* as the "enemy," just that we are bringing up some fundamental questions about how computers are used in mathematics. I'm also not saying that we have all the answers or that we know things perfectly, but we do have a very valid point about open software and how collaboration across disciplines and corporate boundaries, just like mathematics research, leads to the eventual best. -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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
