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> It takes courage to divert such money to people who are doing computer
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> Even if they promise to give away the programs to Mathematicians.
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> To me, paying a lot of money to the Magma development team looks a lot
like "diverting that money to people who are doing compu
On Tuesday, 8 September 2015 00:08:33 UTC-7, rjf wrote:
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> On Saturday, September 5, 2015 at 11:26:10 AM UTC-7, William wrote:
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>> http://sagemath.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-simons-foundation-and-open-source.html
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>> William (http://wstein.org)
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> Not really a surprise.
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> Not really a surprise.
> (That NSF funding for Sage is hard to come by from the government.) that
> it is hard
> from Simons Foundation is not so surprising either. People want
> to fund Mathematicians, which they do by giving them money to buy pencils,
> chalk, food, etc. Maybe even acc
On Saturday, September 5, 2015 at 11:26:10 AM UTC-7, William wrote:
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> William (http://wstein.org)
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Not really a surprise.
(That NSF funding for Sage is hard to come by from the government.) that
