On Dec 10, 2007 1:24 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See *that* is exactly the point. When I talked with one of the Maple founders > about why Maple started in the 1980's, it was precisely because the > mathematicians working on the software didn't want to duplicate tapes and > mail them around the country. We're no different.
What exactly is your message here? That a lack of concern with logistics on the part of programmers has doomed collaborative projects of the past to a closed-source commercial model? That mathematicians working on Sage should be concerned with the logistics of software distribution? The former is certainly true; the latter raises a question about the effective allocation of resources. I expect that to get this logistical stuff done, it'd a lot easier for Sage to recruit a technically-adept fan of open source with a decent math background than to teach an (arbitrary) mathematician about software distribution. My point is that relinquishing control of logistics to non-experts needn't be the death-knell of the project. Down the road you could have a nonprofit "Sage Foundation" which does distrubution, handles integrates and polices code coming in from academic institutions, but does almost no real "development" itself. This model is not without precedent. regards, Steve --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
