On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 14:00:39 UTC+1, Nathann Cohen wrote: <SNIP>
> If I hire people to write research papers and stamp my name on it, and > claim that it is my work, I would be a fraud. > > If I write a paper with coauthors and remove their name at the last > minute, becoming the only one rewarded for a collaborative work, it > would be the same. > And what if you write a paper that depends on someone else's research in a paper they already published. Are you going to add their name to the list of authors of your paper? I think not. I ask that you give consideration to the simple facts that William is not selling Sage, but a service, and he has every right, legally to do so. And please take into account the damage that making accusations might have on Sage, on others working on Sage and SMC and on William personally. If William was directly selling Sage and refusing to pay coauthors I would be on your side. But not only is he not selling Sage directly or asserting ownership of it, but he is largely doing what he is doing so he *can* pay contributors to Sage. If you accept that is a reasonable thing to do, then I see no reason why he should not count himself amongst such authors, or at least pay himself for the work he is doing on SMC, without which such money wouldn't even exist. Anyway, any potential returns for my employer from continuing this discussion are now diminishing well beyond the point of being reasonable. So that's my last comment on this subject. Bill. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
