Unless you can argue that having a Sage port will increase sales, then the marketing types won't care.
Unless you can argue that giving money to a university is a better way to pursue a research topic of interest, then the research types would rather pay in-house. If they were at all interested. The much-maligned controversial statement (Sage doomed) worth reviewing? http://sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.math.symbolic/2005-12/msg00096.html A quote.. By avoiding applications (say, to engineering design, finance, education, scientific visualization, etc etc) the activity is essentially doomed. Why? Government funding for people or projects will be a small percentage of the funding for pure mathematics. That's not much. And the future is pretty grim. .............. There is more money now than 10 years ago in the hands of mathematically-friendly philanthropists. Simons, Clay, Beale, maybe Paulson. What would motivate them? 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.
