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Wait, so will Sage still be open source?
by arghbleargh 10y ago
Wait, so will Sage still be open source?
- williamstein 10y agoAbsolutely YES. Sage is and will always be 100% open source. To ensure this, the GPL copyright is spread amongst over 500 people. Also, the software written by the company SageMath, Inc. is also completely open source (https://github.com/sagemathinc/smc https://github.com/sagemathinc/smc).
- dorfsmay 10y agoThis is great! What will be the source of revenue? Dual-license? Support?
- williamstein 10y agoIt's explained here. Sage itself is 100% open source, but we have a cloud hosted environment people can pay (a very reasonable amount) to use. https://cloud.sagemath.com/policies/pricing.html https://cloud.sagemath.com/policies/pricing.html
- tamana 10y agoPlease charge an unreasonable amount, to secure a good source of funding for your work.
- csense 10y agoThis. $200 for 4 months for 25 users works out to $2 a month per user. You could double or triple it and still be less than the personal plan. Those large multiuser plans probably come out of grants, departmental budgets, etc. So they're likely not all that sensitive to price. Pretend you were still in academia, and had found online some great cloud-hosted software you wanted to use in a course, would it change your / your department's decision about purchasing that software if covering 70 students for a semester cost $400 vs $800 vs $1000?
- dorfsmay 10y agoYou should look into support contracts for 2 reasons: 1) A lot of companies have policies against using software that they cannot buy support contract for (regardless of the quality of the support) 2) if there is an individual/small buzz reasonable option, a lot of companies and people like to pay for it as a way to given financial support.