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Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers by nisuni on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @11:55AM (#19971359)
Do you use Google?
Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers by reikonomusha on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @11:57AM (#19971380)
I don’t use Google as my programming language or standard library. (Of course, such a statement is nonsense.)
Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers by TallGuyShort on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @12:32PM (#19971757)
I have used Google as my programming language (Go) and a de-facto-standard library (Guava). Of course, in both cases they're open source. And I've found and fixed bugs when I couldn't get Google to do all of it themselves. And if Google ceased to exist both of these could continue with minimal interruption.
Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers by nisuni on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @01:38PM (#19972515)
You replied to a different question, and declared that question nonsense.

My question is: do you use Google?

Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers by romantype on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @02:02PM (#19972852)
Yes. Now what's your point?
Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers by nisuni on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:27PM (#19975248)
At the question: "Why Aren’t You Using Our Technology?" you replied "It’s not open source." It's two comments above this.

No one asked about programming languages or standard library (except you when you misunderstood my question).

Therefore you implied that a good reason not to use a technology is that it's not open source. Literally.

Then why are you using Google?

Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers by commoner on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:50PM (#19975460)
The original commenter did not claim to exclusively use open source software, but only that they have a clear preference for open source.