On Sunday, September 27, 2015, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? >
Though I think the growth/survival of the SageMath project is in serious jeopardy due to lack of funding, I for one am definitely not giving up. The activity is not doomed. If anything the only thing to do is try much harder, try a wider range of approaches to getting support, be more open minded, etc. Also the recent success of many sage devs in getting the $8m OpenDreamKit grant is very inspiring! As are the 161 paying customers of SageMathCloud. And the innovations like Bill Hart's Nemo project. Long live open source mah software, starting long ago with Maxima :-) William > > 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 > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sage-devel%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> > . > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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. > -- Sent from my massive iPhone 6 plus. -- 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.
