On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 at 06:00PM -0700, Marshall Hampton wrote: > I completely agree - very well said, except that you don't actually > _need_ an internet connection to use Sage.
Well, unless you travel to the UW and plug in your USB stick into sage.math and copy a tarball over, someone will be be using an internet connection *somewhere*. But yes, no network connection is needed to use Sage. Just last night I was using Sage on a computer with no internet connection, because the network in my apartment was down... I was thinking "you just need an internet connection to use Sage" because of my travel experiences. For example, I visited Vietnam in 2008, and was surprised to find internet cafes there are (from my perspective) super, super cheap -- because, as is obvious when you visit one, they're serving the local population. When I think about Sage being accessible to anyone with an internet connection, I think of those internet cafes, and how most math students in Vietnam have access to powerful software such as Sage, but certainly not any of the M's. Dan -- --- Dan Drake ----- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake -------
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