> > I had to involve outside investors, and I may have to do so again in the > future. They put their personal money on the line, and will have a > say about how profits might get used, if there are ever any profits
I was always a supporter of SMC since I think you are building a great tool and that this is the right way of going to get SageMath (not the company but the open source math software, if there is any need to make this explicit) forward, and not going forward means dying in the long term. This support included giving some of my grant money without any need. I did not know either (*) that there were any outsider investors (**) involved, so I want to state clearly that this does worry me! Not that I am generally against it, but it worries me that this might result in a money drain away from the math research community. (*) I do not follow sage-devel every day, so please point me do discussions about that if there were any. (**) since this is not specified above: by outside investors I assume you mean private investors that are not Sage contributors. Christian -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
