[sage-devel] Re: Sage and the Free Software Foundation.

2009-05-16 Thread William Stein
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 4:26 AM, mabshoff wrote: > > > > On May 16, 2:41 am, Robert Bradshaw > wrote: >> On May 16, 2009, at 2:25 AM, ahmet alper parker wrote: > > > >> Of course, philosophical discussions on the merit of GNU/the GPL >> belong on sage-flame, to try and keep sage-devel about mor

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and the Free Software Foundation.

2009-05-16 Thread mabshoff
On May 16, 2:41 am, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On May 16, 2009, at 2:25 AM, ahmet alper parker wrote: > Of course, philosophical discussions on the merit of GNU/the GPL   > belong on sage-flame, to try and keep sage-devel about more   > development related stuff. +1 - maybe we need a sage-gpl

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and the Free Software Foundation.

2009-05-16 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 16, 2009, at 2:25 AM, ahmet alper parker wrote: > > Why not call GNU/Sage :) Still, I cannot understand why they insist > the name GNU/Linux. There is another software distribution based on > Solaris Kernel which they call it Nexenta. http://www.nexenta.org/os . > There are many more softw

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and the Free Software Foundation.

2009-05-16 Thread ahmet alper parker
Why not call GNU/Sage :) Still, I cannot understand why they insist the name GNU/Linux. There is another software distribution based on Solaris Kernel which they call it Nexenta. http://www.nexenta.org/os . There are many more software that are not labeled with the name GNU, but they feel they sho

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and the Free Software Foundation.

2009-05-15 Thread William Stein
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Antonio Cárdenas wrote: > Hi Professor Stein, > > I like Sage, it is a great project. I sent an email to the FSF about listing > it in the high priority list: > http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html Thanks! > They agree that Sage is a great and necessary pr