Hi Sage Developers, Several people and events have suggested to me that the official name of "Sage" should be filled out to be "SageMath", like the website url (which is sagemath.org and has been since I bought it in 2006). One motivation is that a trademark search [1] for Sage shows over 1100 results, whereas a search for "SageMath" gives 0 results. Another motivation is that many other software products are called Sage, which causes confusion.
This change could be pretty **minimal**, at least initially. The actual command name and "sage:" prompt wouldn't change, and we would still call it "sage" in discussions, emails, etc. It's just that the full name of the software is "SageMath", so Math is sort of a disambiguating last name. However, the website would change from beginning with "Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed ..." to "SageMath is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed ...", and we would encourage using the tag "sagemath" in places like stackoverflow. And there would be a FAQ entry. Personally, in the very long run I think this is the right thing to do to help our users avoid confusion and to be respectful to the many other projects called just "Sage". I don't want this to turn into a bikeshedding discussion, with a million suggestions for names. I also don't think any other name change would make sense or be as seamless except maybe "SageMaths" (I'm curious if SageMath sounds really bad to non-Americans?) [1] http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=searchss&state=4807:xnwk8p.1.1 -- William (http://wstein.org) -- 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.
