I've been out of Australia now for a decade or so, but I'm not North American and SageMath sounds fine to me.
Actually, when I saw the name SageMaths I thought, "why on earth would anyone call something SageMaths", and then I realised the Maths was a non-American abbreviation for Mathematics that I was once used to. Then it just looked mildly odd. Bill. On Wednesday, 18 February 2015 13:13:46 UTC+1, William wrote: > > Hi Sage Developers, > > Several people and events have suggested to me that the official name > of "Sage" should be filled out to be "SageMath", like the website url > (which is sagemath.org and has been since I bought it in 2006). One > motivation is that a trademark search [1] for Sage shows over 1100 > results, whereas a search for "SageMath" gives 0 results. Another > motivation is that many other software products are called Sage, which > causes confusion. > > This change could be pretty **minimal**, at least initially. The > actual command name and "sage:" prompt wouldn't change, and we would > still call it "sage" in discussions, emails, etc. It's just that the > full name of the software is "SageMath", so Math is sort of a > disambiguating last name. However, the website would change from > beginning with "Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system > licensed ..." to "SageMath is a free open-source mathematics software > system licensed ...", and we would encourage using the tag "sagemath" > in places like stackoverflow. And there would be a FAQ entry. > > Personally, in the very long run I think this is the right thing to do > to help our users avoid confusion and to be respectful to the many > other projects called just "Sage". I don't want this to turn into a > bikeshedding discussion, with a million suggestions for names. I also > don't think any other name change would make sense or be as seamless > except maybe "SageMaths" (I'm curious if SageMath sounds really bad to > non-Americans?) > > [1] > http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=searchss&state=4807:xnwk8p.1.1 > > -- > William (http://wstein.org) > -- 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.
