On Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at 6:27:41 PM UTC+1, kcrisman wrote: > > Having now read the comment [1] I agree that while it may not be true > about French universities in general, it was certainly phrased as "my > experience" and was limited to the relatively narrow technical comment of > who administrators might feel comfortable allowing access to. I have > already been told multiple times here (not in France) that I wouldn't be > allowed to host things (even a patchbot) so while one might disagree on the > wisdom of such policies, it isn't limited to any particular nationality, > and hopefully we can move any further comments about [1] to sage-flame. > > However, these comments do touch on something substantive: > > - suggesting that nobody was working on the migration while you know that >> we are working to set things up correctly (e.g. remote backup system), >> and considering that workers are at your disposal, this is extremly >> patronizing [2] >> - maintaining the confusion between university hosting and the very bad >> practices that led us to this situation [3] [4] >> > > Namely that GCE might also have some drawbacks (notably, not being > provided free of charge? perhaps others) and that there were people hoping > to make a university system work. If there is a technical disagreement (or > more than technical) on cloud versus uni, I'm not getting into that, but I > don't see why we couldn't host in one place and backup in the other > (indeed, multiple). What does R do? >
R has so much commercial (and university - cf. CRAN) backing, it's meaningless to compare it to Sage. > > -- 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.
