On Monday, November 3, 2014 1:26:18 AM UTC-8, Joachim Durchholz wrote: > > Am 03.11.2014 um 03:56 schrieb Richard Fateman: > > There is a difference in the size of the user base and there is a > difference > > in the sophistication of the code. The Cathedral and the Bazaar essay > > doesn't work if bugs do not become shallow with enough eyes. > > You can dig a ditch with many shovellers. It is implausible to do a > > heart transplant that way. > > You can get around that with automatic validation. The better the > validation the better the results. >
I don't know what you mean by automatic validation. > Also, I doubt that closed source is much better at this. Whether it's > open or closed source, you need some really bright people on the team, > and either way, it's not easy to attract or keep them. Closed source can > offer bundles of money, open source can choose among the whole world, so > it's not even clear which approach will give you more bright people. > Really? You think that it is unclear? Here's the choice for a programmer 1. You can take a job for a high salary. Use it to support yourself and your family. 2. You can take a job for no money. Your work will be given away. If you need money, you can deliver pizza or whatever. > > > In principle. Practically, are you willing to pay someone to become an > > expert on (say) Maxima so that sympy can learn from it? Maxima is > > open source of course. > > It's just the question whether you want to pay a company or a team of > people. > I doubt that a company will pop up to support Sage -- it is too complicated and specialized. And the people using it are cheapskates. > The company can more easily build a name, so as a customer you can say > "oh they won't goof up because they have to lose from that". On the > minus side, companies tend to have trade secrets and use them to hide > their skeletons in the closet from you. > For a team, it's just the other way round. > -- 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/d5346b9f-4cbd-4fff-a550-5773276d7927%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
