On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 06:56:31PM -0800, Richard Fateman wrote: > The Cathedral and the Bazaar essay > doesn't work if bugs do not become shallow with enough eyes.
I'm giving up. Probably, I newer can understand why. Esp., if there is no difference for commercial support and it's obvious that "eyes" can be of very different qualification. > Yes, but in first - you can do anything that can do a client of > closed-source vendors. And much more (look to the code yourself, pay > someone else for support, etc) > > In principle. No, as a matter of fact. There is a lot of FOSS companies around. > Practically, are you willing to pay someone to become an > expert on (say) Maxima so that sympy can learn from it? Practically, it could be much more easy for Maxima experts to learn SymPy. But yes, I don't see why the quoted above is impossible: i.e. sponsored work (we have this, at least with GSoC) or a commercial project, that rely on SymPy (at least I have some invitations). The bad news with SymPy - is that it's derivative could be closed-source. But I don't think such fork will be useful. > > Apparently, Spain universities doesn't matter for the > > Wolfram Research. > > > > That sounds reasonable to me. > > Are you sure that any academic institution does matter for Wolfram? > > I don;t know what their market looks like, but I am quite sure that the > people buying Mathematica for Univ. Calif ask the users at UC, and for > the most part they don't are about bug reports enough to cancel > the re-licensing... An how much these users do care about the Mathematica bugs? I see a lot of people from Cal, who use something different in their work, incl. the Python and scipy.org stack. > i agree. It might be a problem with (say) addition of certain big > numbers. Or with caching, or... > This convention was certainly in wide use before 1961. Better source? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" 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 http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/20141103123002.GA2290%40darkstar.order.hcn-strela.ru. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
