On Feb 25, 4:37 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
from what I know, Magma is mainly developed by people on the payroll of Sydney University, with funds coming partially from selling software, and partially from grants. Once in a while they get medium-term visitors to add implementations of algorithms they are experts in. > > > 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 Washingtonhttp://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
