kcrisman, I'm not sure if this is the type of example you're looking for as it's a little different, but I understand the frustration personally. A few years back I was a consultant at a company. This company needed some hairy math problems solved and algorithms developed to model a physical phenomenon. I helped in the development and was given the final product for free, but I can assure you that if I had of tried to buy the software...I wouldn't have been able to afford it at the time.
Rick On Saturday, February 8, 2014 12:17:23 AM UTC-5, kcrisman wrote: > > So, in the Sage/GAP/etc. urban legend, some pathetic PhD student proves a > theorem, and then upon graduating can't afford the software it's > implemented in. Nice argument for open source. I have no reason to > disbelieve it, and have seen very similar quotes attributed to someone from > the GAP project. But in the spirit of a Russian Olympics... trust but > verify. > > I'm giving a (non-technical, indeed non-mathematical) talk tomorrow where > I'd like to be able to have something a bit more stable on this. So if > anyone can point me to something more concrete along these lines, I'd be > grateful. > > Thanks, > - kcrisman > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
