On Nov 12, 6:04 am, "Johan S. R. Nielsen" <j.s.r.niel...@mat.dtu.dk> wrote: > A little C-procrastination and relocation to my own site, and Google > is ok: > > http://www.student.dtu.dk/~jsrn/whysage.jpg
Thank you. On Nov 12, 8:13 am, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: > It seems to me that being free and open source, the first couple of > points, > hardly describes the salient features of Sage, simply because there > are > tens of thousands of other programs, including many many losers, > which are also free and open source. It doesn't grab me. > Wouldn't you describe GIMP, as an image processing > program similar to photoshop, and afterward say it was free? > > It seems to me the obvious first point for "Why Sage" is > that Sage provides access to mathematical software. Yes, the layout needs to be changed. > (I also find the mention that it runs on Python to be [probably > unintentionally] > deceptive since, of the hundreds of packages included, many (most?) > are not > running on Python, and thus a pythoner who expects to see open source > python for them will be disappointed.) The wording should be revised. Maybe "Sage code is written with Python..."? I know this is not always the case, but inserting a "usually" or "is derived from" will just lead to confusion. > I would agree with you. I know I've seen some surveys where individuals have > been asked what's the most important advantage of open-source. > > Here's one, titled "Key Advantage of Open Source is Not Cost Savings" > > http://www.computereconomics.com/article.cfm?id=1043 > > There is shows "less dependence on vendors" as the most cited advantage. I've > seen other surveys too, and cost is not usually the #1 factor. Perhaps the "free" and "open-source" boxes should be merged, since the latter implies the former. However, I did mention that the user can verify and contribute to the algorithms he/she uses, which I think is an important point. Other arguments aside, is there a consensus that a page like this is needed/wanted? -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
