On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Dr. David Kirkby<david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: >> I definitely see your point. >> > > Good. > > To be fair, I think confidentiality is more likely to be an issue with > Wireshark than Sage, but I can still see cases where confidentiality > could be an issue with Sage.
Confidentially already is an important issue for some Sage users... >> Just for the record, I'm personally not going to be selling support >> contracts and making officially supported versions, etc., as you >> suggest above. That should be done by a private company that seeks to >> make money from Sage, and I am not going to start or run such a >> company. If somebody else wants to, then I would be supportive. I >> have my own ideas about how I personally will help Sage grow bigger >> and more supportive, and becoming a commercial entity is not among >> them. >> > > Fair enough, that is your choice. The money does not need to go to you > personally, if you do not want it to, so there would be no need to set > up a commerical company for this. If the money was used to support the > Sage project, by hiring staff, buying better hardware etc then I would > think that a good thing. > > Either way, that is your choice. If you don't feel that is appropiate, > you might consider one other alternative, which is to offer free > confidential advice to commercial users when there is a specific need to > keep information away from public view. A statement on the Sage web site > something like this might be useful > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > CONFIDENTAIL SUPPORT FOR COMMERCIAL USERS. > > Sage will improve most rapidy if all support requests are made in public > mailing lists. Quiries will be answered most rapidy on the putlic > forums. However, > in cases where specific information must be withheld from public view, > Professor Willliam Stein will offer free support to commerical users on > a confidential basis. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Whilst I personally think a paid support contract, with the money > donated to the Sage project is preferable, agreeing to offer free advice > in confidence would go some way to increasing its accepantace in > commerical environments. In point of fact I already do devote nontrivial time to doing exactly what you suggest above (and sometimes in person, not just email). I just don't put a specific statement on the website. This is definitely worth discussing further. -- william --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
