On Friday, August 26, 2016 at 12:57:22 PM UTC+1, Nathann Cohen wrote: > > No, you are just not seeing the obvious here. >> William views SMC as a part of activities associated to Sagemath >> development, and it's hard to argue against this point of view. >> > > It's true, it is "associated". One important side of SageMath-the-software > is that it is "led' by a community, while William's "associated" activities > are led by him and only him. He takes decisions, his company earns the > money with Sage-associated activities and he spends it (on him or on Sage) > as only him decides. > > >> (as e.g. SMC is a popular platform to run courses that use Sagemath, and >> this is obviously important.) >> > > Yes, it does play a role in Sage's future. > > >> Thus SMC may fund William's food etc., as part of activities associated >> with Sagemath development. >> (In general, when one *funds* something it normally is via payment of >> money.) >> > > Then accept that I see it as rather misleading when William say that his > objective to make **a lot of money** to "fund Sage development", and that > by that he includes "earn himself money". His message hinted at a kind of > noble selflessness which you tell me isn't there. SageMath Inc.'s goal is > to promote/develop Sage AND to pay his bills. >
I think you are just doing elitist trolling here, out of boredom, perhaps. Are you going to pay his bills? Me? US government? French government? His skateboarding? Dude, you're sitting in your CNRS ivory tower, not too well-paid, but still far removed from the reality... Yes, Sagemath developers have to eat, live somewhere, etc., there is no magic that would automatically place a sufficient figure in there bank accounts, unless they are fixed for life like you are. > > Nathann > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
