> > No, you are just not seeing the obvious here. > William views SMC as a part of activities associated to Sagemath > development, and it's hard to argue against this point of view. >
It's true, it is "associated". One important side of SageMath-the-software is that it is "led' by a community, while William's "associated" activities are led by him and only him. He takes decisions, his company earns the money with Sage-associated activities and he spends it (on him or on Sage) as only him decides. > (as e.g. SMC is a popular platform to run courses that use Sagemath, and > this is obviously important.) > Yes, it does play a role in Sage's future. > Thus SMC may fund William's food etc., as part of activities associated > with Sagemath development. > (In general, when one *funds* something it normally is via payment of > money.) > Then accept that I see it as rather misleading when William say that his objective to make **a lot of money** to "fund Sage development", and that by that he includes "earn himself money". His message hinted at a kind of noble selflessness which you tell me isn't there. SageMath Inc.'s goal is to promote/develop Sage AND to pay his bills. Nathann -- 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.
