On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:34 AM, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Friday, December 5, 2014 12:39:55 PM UTC-8, William wrote: >> >> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 12:19 PM, maldun <dom...@gmx.net> wrote: >> > What we still don't have is a working windows version. This is still a >> > big >> > blocker for being succesfull. >> >> I don't want to in any way discourage anybody from working hard on >> Windows support for Sage. However, it's getting more difficult to >> argue that Windows support is a blocker to our mission statement. >> >> As I've explained elsewhere, I started SageMathCloud because of >> exactly this problem, and also that I'm thinking about where >> technology is going to be in a few years rather than where it was. >> I'm not arguing the SMC is *the* solution, just that web-based >> approaches are, including Sage cell server, Wakari, etc. >> >> There's no question that in say 200?, Microsoft Windows support was >> absolutely critical for widespread adoption of a piece of software in >> a given market. Today, and certainly going into the future, this is >> not so clear. The single most popular applications in the world >> today are Google.com and Facebook.com [1], which have well over a >> *billion* active users [2], and neither has a "working windows >> version". > > > Huh? They work for me on Windows.
You're utterly missing the point. > Saying that you could work on cloud computing.. eh, maybe for some people > for some projects for some of the time. I don't know what you're saying. > Seems to me that Microsoft is not going to go away. There actually > is a pile of software that still runs on Microsoft Windows and not on > unix. Last I looked, Linux /free-open stuff was way behind on (say) speech > recognition. I'm sure there are other places too. I don't think Microsoft is going away -- indeed, my impression is that Microsoft as a company is currently pushing for cloud computing as their top priority. > Is there a native Android sage? No. - William -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
