Jaap Spies wrote: > mark mcclure wrote: > >> On Nov 23, 3:30 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> That is true. In fact, I hope in the proposal to not insult or snub >>> non-free commercial software either. >>> >> But William, just two days ago on sage-support you wrote: >> "Let's put Mathworks out of business." >> http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/b56450bab6d43bf7/a82a770db1abd6dc#msg_d72f94b7ff856c29 >> >> > > Ever heard of the word humor? Even without a smiley this is possible in > a message. > > Jaap > > >
I believe Sage is a very useful piece of software for many people. But I have had numerous discussions (the last one was at the NSF workshop in Rhode Island prior to ECCAD) about funding open source computational mathematics. The definitive statement seems to be: "NSF will not fund software development that competes with existing commercial software." I pointed out that nowhere in Axiom's goals was there any sense of competing with commercial software but that response was unheard. But given the definitive reply from NSF I am somewhat surprised that NSF funds Sage at all. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
