On Tuesday, 8 September 2015 00:08:33 UTC-7, rjf wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 5, 2015 at 11:26:10 AM UTC-7, William wrote: >> >> >> http://sagemath.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-simons-foundation-and-open-source.html >> >> >> -- >> William (http://wstein.org) >> > > 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. >
right now I am visiting a place called Simons Instititute for Theory of Computing (yes, at UC Berkeley) So they are willing to fund CS theory; looks like someone has to remind them that theory without practice is a bit of nonsense, and goes hand in hand. (No, they don't pay me a cent, to the contrary, they forced me to fork out a lot for all that J-1 (in place of WB) visa nonsense, with expensive insurance etc attached...) Another theory would be that they believe in free market BS so deeply that they just cannot imagine a project like Sagemath working... In this case their belief goes so far that they are funding a monopoly, that is to say, Magma, in effect to crush a deviation from their BS model... Nobody expects Spanish Inquisition... Dima > RJF > > > > > -- 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.
