[Axiom-developer] Re: AMS Notices: Open Source Mathematical Software

[root]

>> Third, even if the NSF funded SAGE, how would those funds benefit the
>> various subprojects like Axiom?
>
>let me give my opinion on that specific point. As a developer of two
>"subprojects" used by SAGE, I can say that the SAGE developers do a
>tremendous work in porting, testing, reporting bugs and even patches
>to "upstream" developers. This saves a lot of time to the subproject
>developers, and helps a lot in improving the quality of those subprojects.

While I agree that participation in Sage is a good idea and a source
of testing, I was asking about how the funding of Sage would benefit
projects like Axiom? How might we pay a developer to expand on 
symbolic summation code?

Tim