Re: [sage-support] Re: (William Stein) "my top priority right now is to **make a lot of money**"

2016-08-27 Thread Christophe Bal
Thanks a lot. *Christophe BAL* *Enseignant de mathématiques en Lycée **et développeur Python amateur* *---* *French teacher of **math** in a high school **and **amateur **Python * *developer* 2016-08-27 19:27 GMT+02:00 Dima Pasechnik : > > > On Saturday, August 27, 2016 at

Re: [sage-support] Re: (William Stein) "my top priority right now is to **make a lot of money**"

2016-08-27 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Saturday, August 27, 2016 at 3:11:46 PM UTC, projetmbc wrote: > > Thanks. > > Do you have a link to that ? > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-cloud/og3tmsXK-K0/snB-7v2_CgAJ > > Le 27 août 2016 01:12, "kcrisman" a > écrit : > >> >> >> On Thursday, August 25, 2016

Re: [sage-support] Re: (William Stein) "my top priority right now is to **make a lot of money**"

2016-08-27 Thread Christophe Bal
Thanks. Do you have a link to that ? Le 27 août 2016 01:12, "kcrisman" a écrit : > > > On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 3:43:44 AM UTC-4, projetmbc wrote: >> >> That is not a problem. You can still use your own server to use SMC . >> That will be my choice because in France

[sage-support] Re: (William Stein) "my top priority right now is to **make a lot of money**"

2016-08-26 Thread kcrisman
> > > > 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... >

Re: [sage-support] Re: (William Stein) "my top priority right now is to **make a lot of money**"

2016-08-26 Thread kcrisman
On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 3:43:44 AM UTC-4, projetmbc wrote: > > That is not a problem. You can still use your own server to use SMC . That > will be my choice because in France we cannot pay a lot for tools in > HighSchool. > > > In fact, someone just posted on sage-cloud that they

Re: [sage-support] Re: (William Stein) "my top priority right now is to **make a lot of money**"

2016-08-26 Thread David Joyner
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 6:51 AM, Nathann Cohen wrote: >> Nathan does give the link to the original post, but he is quoting out of >> context. Here is the full post: > > > Still, it would be incomplete to claim, as in the original post, that the > only aim of SageMath Inc.

[sage-support] Re: (William Stein) "my top priority right now is to **make a lot of money**"

2016-08-26 Thread john_perry_usm
On Friday, August 26, 2016 at 6:57:22 AM UTC-5, Nathann Cohen wrote: > > 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

[sage-support] Re: (William Stein) "my top priority right now is to **make a lot of money**"

2016-08-26 Thread Dima Pasechnik
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".

[sage-support] Re: (William Stein) "my top priority right now is to **make a lot of money**"

2016-08-26 Thread Nathann Cohen
> > An unenlightened taxpayer actually might prefer this scheme, as currently > most of Sagemath development is funded by taxpayers, and they might not see > much > value in it. > Other taxpayers (possibly french) could tell you that their government has invested millions of euros in this

[sage-support] Re: (William Stein) "my top priority right now is to **make a lot of money**"

2016-08-26 Thread Nathann Cohen
> > 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

[sage-support] Re: (William Stein) "my top priority right now is to **make a lot of money**"

2016-08-26 Thread Nathann Cohen
The *very* least you can do if you answer my messages publicly is to let them appear on the forum. On 24 August 2016 at 22:12, Nathann Cohen wrote: > Quote from William Stein, CEO of SageMath Inc (private for-profit > Delaware company) [1] > > So there is no

[sage-support] Re: (William Stein) "my top priority right now is to **make a lot of money**"

2016-08-26 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Friday, August 26, 2016 at 11:51:05 AM UTC+1, Nathann Cohen wrote: > > Nathan does give the link to the original post, but he is quoting out of >> context. Here is the full post: >> > > Still, it would be incomplete to claim, as in the original post, that the > only aim of SageMath Inc. is

[sage-support] Re: (William Stein) "my top priority right now is to **make a lot of money**"

2016-08-26 Thread Nathann Cohen
> > Nathan does give the link to the original post, but he is quoting out of > context. Here is the full post: > Still, it would be incomplete to claim, as in the original post, that the only aim of SageMath Inc. is to fund Sage development and associated activities. Take it as a proof that

Re: [sage-support] Re: (William Stein) "my top priority right now is to **make a lot of money**"

2016-08-25 Thread Christophe Bal
That is not a problem. You can still use your own server to use SMC . That will be my choice because in France we cannot pay a lot for tools in HighSchool. *Christophe BAL* *Enseignant de mathématiques en Lycée **et développeur Python amateur* *---* *French teacher of **math** in a high school

[sage-support] Re: (William Stein) "my top priority right now is to **make a lot of money**"

2016-08-24 Thread Andrew
Nathan does give the link to the original post, but he is quoting out of context. Here is the full post: On Sunday, 21 August 2016 07:15:56 UTC+10, William wrote: > So there is no confusion, my top priority right now is to **make a lot > of money** by building a profitable company on open