None of these arguments make any sense. If you want to run a local server with sage, you are very welcome to use the sage notebook that is distributed with sage itself. Also, this thread should definitely not be in sage-devel.
On Monday, August 18, 2014 7:45:36 AM UTC+8, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote: > > > I think the whole closed source nature is likely to restrict the takeup of > Sage for several broad groups of people when they realise that to get high > performance they are going to need to store sensitive material on a Linux > server they don't control. > > As a 50 year old engineer I have worked at three institutions who I know > would not want to put workbooks on a server outside their institution. > > a) Ministry of Defence - no way. > b) Airbus - no way. They are very strict on security. > c) Marconi - most unlikely. > > 1) Many commercial companies are not going to be so keen to put > commercially sensitive material on a server they don't control. > Interlecural property is valuable company asset. > > Suddenly buying distributed licenses for Mathematica is more attractive > from a security point of view. At least Wolfram Research can't look at what > you are doing. > > 2) Military users are very unlikely to start working on something on a > distributed system they can't totally control. > > 3) Some academics, especially those working on mathematics in areas they > know UW specialise in, would perhaps no want to put worksheets on a server > they know prying eyes will see. Why let someone else look at what you are > working on and possibly beat you to publish a paper? > > 4) Some individuals are just paranoid and will not use a distributed > system they don't control. > > No doubt HTTPS will be used to encrypt data in transit. Maybe worksheets > are stored in an encrypted format on disk. But at some stage the data going > to be in plain text. > > Has anyone working on SageMathCloud ever considered that certain users > would not want data stored in a manner they have no control over? > > Dave. > -- 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/d/optout.
