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Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers by pokoleo on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @01:11PM (#19972148)
At one time or another, I attended a talk given by wolfram and asked roughly the same question.

His response belittled the question, calling it naive. His smugness was astoundingly tone deaf.

Until he figures out how to answer questions like this without using shame to cow developers into line, I’m staying away.

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Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers by johannes1234321 on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @08:26PM (#19976549)
Of course it is naive - his business is built around it. OpenSourcing takes a lot of revenue away from him. Compensating that with support contracts and cloud services won't be easy.

Not to mention the fact that probably he doesn't own all rights for doing that. Software with such a history often contains third party licensed modules.

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Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers by tinhb on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @03:27PM (#19973918)
he gave you nuggets of wisdom imo.
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