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by daly
4883 days ago
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Axiom costs several thousand dollars a year. I fund it.
The main contributors are academic mathematicians since
Axiom is a computer algebra system. I have tried to get
funding from IBM, RedHat, the NSF, and several other
funding sources. Funds would be used to run a conference,
pay for speaker fees, hackathons, travel costs, and server
costs. None of the funds would be for actual code. So far
I have not found any funding source. Axiom used to be proprietary. It was a commercial
competitor to Mathematica and Maple, one of "the big 3".
It could be proprietary again as it is licensed under BSD.
Axiom contains world-class algorithms written by the people
who invented them. It is truly a valuable collection of
intellectual excellence. This is what motivates me to
continue to support and develop it. Tim Daly
Axiom Lead Developer
http://axiom-developer.org |
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