Profiting from contributors' hard work
112 views
Skip to first unread message
Fredrik Johansson
Feb 15, 2016, 12:55:56 PM2/15/16
to sage-flame
The Sage git repository (my current copy) is worth $192,937,447 according to David A. Wheeler's SLOCCount.
SageMathCloud has 68,652 active monthly users, as of September 2015, according to http://sagemath.blogspot.com/2015/09/what-is-sagemaths-strategy.html
William "Dr. Evil" Stein is thus stealing 68,652 x $192,937,447 = 13 TRILLION DOLLARS from the Sage developer community, every month.* This figure does not even account for the value of Sage's dependencies.
This is of course very upsetting. However, it also suggests a viable source of funding for Sage developers (with plenty of precedent in the intellectual property industry): start suing others over lost potential profits. Myself, I'm modest and would settle if I get just a few million dollars.
Fredrik
* I could not find RIAA arithmetic implemented anywhere in Sage, but ZZ was adequate for this calculation.
SageMathCloud has 68,652 active monthly users, as of September 2015, according to http://sagemath.blogspot.com/2015/09/what-is-sagemaths-strategy.html
William "Dr. Evil" Stein is thus stealing 68,652 x $192,937,447 = 13 TRILLION DOLLARS from the Sage developer community, every month.* This figure does not even account for the value of Sage's dependencies.
This is of course very upsetting. However, it also suggests a viable source of funding for Sage developers (with plenty of precedent in the intellectual property industry): start suing others over lost potential profits. Myself, I'm modest and would settle if I get just a few million dollars.
Fredrik
* I could not find RIAA arithmetic implemented anywhere in Sage, but ZZ was adequate for this calculation.
rjf
Feb 23, 2016, 5:00:24 PM2/23/16
to sage-flame
On Monday, February 15, 2016 at 9:55:56 AM UTC-8, Fredrik Johansson wrote:
The Sage git repository (my current copy) is worth $192,937,447 according to David A. Wheeler's SLOCCount.
I'm not an expert on this metric, but maybe it means something different.
Like, if you didn't have Sage then it would cost you that much money to hire people to write it.
There is another way of determining what something is worth, which is how much
some (suitably informed and rational) person is willing to pay for it.
I am unaware of anyone offering big money to buy or rent Sage.
RJF
Tom Boothby
Feb 24, 2016, 1:47:37 AM2/24/16
to sage-...@googlegroups.com
See, that's just the problem that Fredrik has pointed out: nobody is
offering to pay for their use of Sage! It's a travesty, I tell you,
people using free software and not paying for it.
> --
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "sage-flame" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
> email to sage-flame+...@googlegroups.com.
> To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com.
> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-flame.
> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
offering to pay for their use of Sage! It's a travesty, I tell you,
people using free software and not paying for it.
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "sage-flame" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
> email to sage-flame+...@googlegroups.com.
> To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com.
> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-flame.
> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Reply all
Reply to author
Forward
0 new messages