On Mon, 14 May 2007, C Y wrote: | --- Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > On Mon, 14 May 2007, C Y wrote: | > | > | If you don't mind my asking, why do you say this Gaby? | > | > Is your research funding agency interested in funding a research | > project that sets TeX as a Gold standard? | | At the moment, I have no research funding agency. I'm just a hobbiest | with a day job. | | Whether any agency is willing to fund any of the sort of work we are | doing here is an open question - a couple of comments I heard at ECCAD | hinted at some shifts in the funding landscape that aren't especially | encouraging. | | I hadn't heard of association with TeX as being a detrimental factor to | a project.
I'm pointing at the moon, don't look at my finger. The detrimental factor is not the association with TeX per se. But setting TeX as the gold standard: to be blunt, that lacks ambition and vision; I don't see how a research funding agency would be excited funding something like that in 2007. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
