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Re:William Stein on the struggle for open source funding in ... by wbl on Saturday April 28, 2018 @10:09AM (#16947700)
The problem is that projects like Singular depend on listing papers that have been written with them to get funding and attract contributions. These represent a very significant amount of work. Sage doesn't handle a lot of stuff directly: anything more then basic arithmetic often goes to a specialized package.
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Re:William Stein on the struggle for open source funding in ... by williamstein on Saturday April 28, 2018 @10:13AM (#16947715)
It is not true anymore that "anything more than basic arithmetic goes to a specialized package" (it used to be true back in 2005). The Sage library itself is nearly a million lines of code and is very deep after contributions by over 500 people during 14 years--it's far more than "basic arithmetic".
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Re:William Stein on the struggle for open source funding in ... by zeth___ on Saturday April 28, 2018 @07:44PM (#16950009)
I know scientists are terrible at PR, but why not say:

"Used as foundational block of the Sage library, used in the following papers: [...]" then list every paper that used sage. No one can't prove that Singular wasn't called at least once in the writing of that paper.

Then sage gets more recognition, singular gets way more recognition and the suits in admin are happy.

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