> > > But let me a reflexion, not for you but for the sage community (sorry > for my > > bad English): I'm s university math professor in Spain, and I explain > > sagemath to my students. How is possible to promote sagemath between the > > students if only to install it is so complicate, also in a mac? > > > > We use sage at classroom, but most of the students hate it; they prefer > 10^6 > > times to use a pirate copy of Mathematica. > > > > Please, try to improve the usability of sage for non programming > > experts!!!!! > > The community of mathematicians and math teachers have so far chosen > to financially (and otherwise) support Sage at about 0.01% of the > level that they support Mathematica. I fear that you do not know who > writes Sage, where Sage comes from, or how it is funded. > > Until the mathematical community is willing to support -- in real ways > (money!) -- open source math software, they are very naive to expect > the same level of polish for the masses that can be provided by the > effort of thousands of employees (which Mathematica and Matlab > collectively have). > > Much open source volunteer work is currently massively under > appreciated and this is one of the biggest mistakes of society of this > decade. > > -- William > > What you say is true, of course. But perhaps the lack of money is not the guilty of mathematicians and math teachers, but of the persons and organizations that decide the funds for research.
In any case, this does not change the problem: students do not like to use sage. Unfortunately, this is the truth. Juan Luis Varona -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
