I apologize for the tone of my email  - it was the result of late-hours, a migraine, and memories of past bad experiences.  I spent 3 years in the 80's writing software for a scanner that was ostensibly developed for use at a university.  Then the hardware guys formed a company and eventually made tons of money while the two of us developing software got a one-time shot at some consulting, $2000 in royalties, (which was exactly equal to the university's share,) and lost our jobs.   A few years later I inadvertently bought software that I had written during those three years.  Hence the paranoia.

The combination of open-source software and for-profit companies do raise some legitimate questions, so I don't think that it is entirely unreasonable for people to wonder about this.


John

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:27 PM, John Ollinger <ollinger@wisc.edu> wrote:
> What exactly is the relationship between Enthought and the scipy developers

Enthought employs a few of them, namely Travis Oliphant and myself.
Enthought, Travis Oliphant, and Pearu Peterson made the initial
contributions that started the scipy project in the first place.
Enthought hosts scipy.org. Enthought contributes a fair amount of time
and money to numpy and scipy development, still.

> and how will it affect future releases of scipy and numpy?

Travis and I will be able to work on them, mostly. What are you
worried about happening?

> Will scipy
> evolve to the point where the Enthought version is required for all
> practical purposes?

No.

--
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
 -- Umberto Eco
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