> > > > The vast majority of users on the desktop use Windows and do not have > > access to Linux or OSX. > > The vast majority of users on the desktop give a damn of calculating > anything!! ;)
Well, yes, but all people I know of that use Mathematica use Windows on the desktop. Those are kinds of people Sage is interested in. > I don't see the need for such an extreme view of competition. If there > are 98% happy with buying windows, being passive users and being > experts at software-firewall-workarounds-registry-hacking-anti-virus- > xyz - have fun. They are also happy buying "state of the art" software > like mathematica or matlab. I don't think so. They run windows because they had to, or just because they do, it doesn't really matter. Windows will be there with us, at least in the next decade, and it will be the major system on desktops as it is now (maybe not 95%, maybe only 60%). I don't think they are happy buying expensive software and also that their students had to either steal mathematica, or not being able to do calculations at home. Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
