[sage-devel] Re: Cost of Magma for commercial users.

2010-05-30 Thread mhampton
I wonder if the NSA bought a copy if it would be a commercial license. On May 29, 7:28 pm, rjf wrote: > On May 29, 3:32 pm, "Jason B. Hill" wrote: > > > It is a strange business model, but in certain circles it is well-known. > > > Just last week, one of my old professors told me that he had bou

[sage-devel] Re: Cost of Magma for commercial users.

2010-05-29 Thread rjf
On May 29, 3:32 pm, "Jason B. Hill" wrote: > It is a strange business model, but in certain circles it is well-known. > > Just last week, one of my old professors told me that he had bought a > subscription to Magma for his coding theory + polynomial rings research. Still, it's not a commercial

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Cost of Magma for commercial users.

2010-05-29 Thread Jason B. Hill
It is a strange business model, but in certain circles it is well-known. Just last week, one of my old professors told me that he had bought a subscription to Magma for his coding theory + polynomial rings research. He works at a university/department with all Windows machines. He was confused by

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Cost of Magma for commercial users.

2010-05-29 Thread John Cremona
On 29 May 2010 22:27, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > On 05/29/10 10:12 PM, rjf wrote: >> >> I would be curious as to whether a Magma commercial license has ever >> been sold. > > Based on the contents of the MAGMA web site, I'm amazed they manage to sell > any copies at all. (Student, academic, commeri

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Cost of Magma for commercial users.

2010-05-29 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 05/29/10 10:12 PM, rjf wrote: I would be curious as to whether a Magma commercial license has ever been sold. Based on the contents of the MAGMA web site, I'm amazed they manage to sell any copies at all. (Student, academic, commerical or whatever other licenses they sell). I know one can

[sage-devel] Re: Cost of Magma for commercial users.

2010-05-29 Thread rjf
I would be curious as to whether a Magma commercial license has ever been sold. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.goog

[sage-devel] Re: Cost of Magma for commercial users.

2010-05-29 Thread Jason Grout
On 5/29/10 1:32 PM, William Stein wrote: On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: For what it is worth, I requested a quote for a Magma license for commercial purposes a couple of weeks ago. I intended to put the amount in a slide I did for the London OpenSolaris User Group (LO