On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 at 08:27PM -0800, William Stein wrote: [snip] > That situation was just very frustrating for me, not because I > couldn't get Magma (I got it for free as a developer), but that so > many other students and colleagues couldn't get it.
Exactly! The value of any of these pieces of software increases as more people use it (a network effect). The growth of the "Magma network" is sharply limited by the high price; the growth of the "Sage network" is limited by bandwidth and having a fast enough computer. To give an idea of what sort of limits that "sufficient bandwidth" and "fast enough computer" impose: I just was in Vietnam for vacation, and even in rural areas, one finds internet access and computers that are fast enough to run Sage (though perhaps not terribly well). Dan -- --- Dan Drake <dr...@kaist.edu> ----- KAIST Department of Mathematical Sciences ------- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake
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