On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 8:31:27 PM UTC-5, rjf wrote: > > OK, it makes sense to me that you might resent not being able to freely > execute software you write if that software depends, in some essential way, > on some other software that you do not have full / free access to. >
No, I am not personally resenting anything. I am referring to a sort of urban legend along these lines. But in this case I am saying that it is possible that someone else implements an algorithm you came up with; this seems very different from patent situations (but IANAL). I suppose it would be similar if one implemented it oneself in software that one later didn't have access to, though; certainly I could imagine a grad student writing a program for Magma that is actually incorporated into it, and then that student ended up not getting a job at a place where they could afford Magma with their startup funds. Rick's example is related, especially if said software was upgraded and then was no longer free to that author. But it isn't personal for me so I guess I'll leave this thread! -- 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.
