On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 12:24:32AM -0700, Robert Bradshaw wrote:
> We had this in the form of the original sage notebook for years. Yes,
> it had its problems, but "universities" didn't step up to fix them (or
> replace it with something better). Few others than William hosted such
> servers of significance.
Indeed. Yet many institutions did setup local servers, some of non
trivial sizes. At the very least, this did help quite some to reduce
the access barrier to Sage -- the whole point of Sage -- at least
within those institutions.
Cheers,
Nicolas
FWIW, my personal point of view: I find it great that William and
others spend a lot of energy exploring ways to lower the access
barrier to Sage. I am not necessarily convinced that some of this
energy would not be better used in different approaches. But since
they do the work, they get to choose whichever strategy they believe
in. And since its outside of Sage itself, I find it legitimate that
they choose whatever license they see fit (not so keen on the big fat
advertisement on sagemath.org though). That being said, as long as I
won't have the possibility to run an open source copy of SMC (possibly
stripped of its high-availability part) on my local machine / cloud,
or at the very least easily recover all my data in a usable form, I
personally won't use it, and won't recommend using it.
--
Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <nthi...@users.sf.net>
http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/
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