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SageMath is an open-source alternative to Mathematica. If it goes closed source, what's the point?
by gertef 10y ago
SageMath is an open-source alternative to Mathematica.
If it goes closed source, what's the point?
- williamstein 10y agoThe main commercial (but 100% open source) product I'm talking about in the post is SageMathCloud. To clarify, unlike SageMath, SageMathCloud is a web-based realtime collaborative environment for editing LaTeX files, writing code, using Terminals, and distributing and grading homework, which tightly integrates SageMath and Jupyter notebooks. Regarding "If SageMath goes closed source, what's the point?" there's absolutely no possible way SageMath itself could go closed source, since the copyright is spread across over 500 contributors, and SageMath depends on many other GPL licensed libraries. In my opinion, SageMath also has much greater depth and breadth of functionality than Mathematica for many areas related to pure mathematics research, especially coding theory, number theory, algebraic combinatorics, graph theory and group theory. To a mathematics researcher such as me, the functionality of Mathematica for elliptic curves and modular forms (my area) is very basic compared to what is in SageMath.