On Monday, February 15, 2016 at 1:55:42 PM UTC, Nathann Cohen wrote: > > > surely there are potentially huge, enormous profits to be made from > selling > > a site that > > only runs open-source software, all hosted on github; this must be a > novel > > business model... > > > > it is true that SMC just started to break even a month ago, before that > > William > > was actually burning his money... > > https://plus.google.com/115360165819500279592/posts/6XZV9NfGSP1 > > https://plus.google.com/115360165819500279592/posts/5hxiQyKBuUT > > > > For comparison you might also want to look at the following figures: > > http://state-employees.findthedata.com/l/10107565/William-A-Stein > > Well. At first he was spending his money in the hope of earning money, > and now he earns money. > > That's good for him. The fact that he now sells our collective work > but keeps the benefits, however, is another story. >
So you do not trust him saying that he will use whatever SMC makes to improve Sagemath, do you? Otherwise I don't see a point in what you are saying (unless you'd have some peculiar ideological grounds I tried to mock). -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
