On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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.
The above is all true. The interesting question is who the customers are, who gives the grants, roughly for how much, what the budget is, how many employees there are, etc.? -- 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
