On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 6:52 AM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Feb 24, 6:09 am, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: >> On 2011-02-24 10:30, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: >> >> > Any comments? Is there any chance of implementing this? >> >> Who is going to do this commercial support? > > There's been talk of founding a company which would support notebook > servers, provide them - sort of like the proof-of-concept Amazon > server mentioned earlier this year. But you are right that there are > not currently any takers for providing the sort of support Dave is > talking about. I don't see why someone enterprising couldn't do it, > but it would require a pretty comprehensive knowledge of Sage, the > kind that relatively few people have. > > - kcrisman
I'm also curious about honest *opinions* about how people in the Sage community would feel about a company making potentially gobs of money selling support contracts? What balance between profit and giving back to the community would be appropriate? What services might be offensive, and what would be OK? For example: * I could see how some people might be annoyed if there were a Sage version of EPD (http://www.enthought.com/products/epd.php) that fully supported Windows (say), even though Sage didn't, and cost $199/license. On the other hand, perhaps a $199 Sage-for-Windows might be better than no-sage-at-all for Windows for free. * I'm curious if something like sagenb.org, but with Google ads, would be offensive. I could see somebody starting a small business that is just public notebook servers that also have ads. I haven't personally made up my mind about any of this. -- William -- 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
