Dear Martin,

This email is very misguided.  Perhaps surprisingly to you, it is
generally considered very rude to post questions/surveys to an open
source project's mailing list without providing some clear
introduction and explanation about specifically what the survey has to
do with that project, how the survey results will be used, who you
are, etc.  The fact that your survey also doesn't even mention Sage
makes this survey particularly rude.

I get the impression that you're going to try to use the results of
this survey as part of work to create a business plan or something.
If so, you should say so.  If you want to start a company that does
open source support, it's valuable to learn how to work with the
community of volunteers who create that software.   The best single
bit of advice I have in that direction is try as hard as you can to be
open and treat them with respect.

 -- William

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 2:07 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>                   Is there an need for more open source math tools in
> for-profit companies?  If so, would targeted training and support help meet
> this need while benefiting the open source community?  Please share your
> opinions and reasoning by answering the survey questions below.
>
>
> I've invited you to fill out the form Growth potential for open source math
> tools: 10 questions. To fill it out, visit:
> http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEhfZmNXRTY2MjlfTXQ2SGphcWl3ekE6MQ
>
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-- 
William Stein
Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

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