On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > On 2/24/11 11:28 AM, William Stein wrote: > >> 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? >> > > Can you or someone describe the current Magma funding model?
I literally can't. Their funding model is proprietary/closed, just like Magma itself. > How does it > help the Magma community, interested developers, etc. How is it perceived > by the community? Some people in "the Magma community" are unhappy with the Magma model, so much so that they started an alternative more open project [1]. [1] http://sagemath.org > > Thanks, > > Jason > > > -- > 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 > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
