> > > Not really a surprise. > (That NSF funding for Sage is hard to come by from the government.) that > it is hard > from Simons Foundation is not so surprising either. People want > to fund Mathematicians, which they do by giving them money to buy pencils, > chalk, food, etc. Maybe even access to computer programs. > > It takes courage to divert such money to people who are doing computer > programming. > Even if they promise to give away the programs to Mathematicians. > > Sadly, the blog post leads one to suggest this hypothesis: > > if Sage cost money, just like Magma, maybe > Simons would give money to the Sage project so that it would provide > free copies to the mathematicians who use it. > > I think others have mentioned that they can't use their grants to just give money to an open-source project... the OSS literature on the corporate side is replete with examples where unless there was an actual company to pay, people couldn't convince their $$ folks to give them money related to OSS.
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