Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
by educomments on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @06:14PM
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Just ask.
Warning: it's ridiculously expensive. You need to be charging your users 4+ figures per license for your software in order to be able to pay Wolfram their cut.
The open/libre stuff is a huge red herring -- cost is the real bottleneck. It doesn't make any sense to use Wolfram/Mathematica unless there's a built-in function that you NEED, for which there is no alternative, and which requires a team of PhDs to re-implement.
E.g., even a non-production single user corporate desktop license is $3K.
Warning: it's ridiculously expensive. You need to be charging your users 4+ figures per license for your software in order to be able to pay Wolfram their cut.
The open/libre stuff is a huge red herring -- cost is the real bottleneck. It doesn't make any sense to use Wolfram/Mathematica unless there's a built-in function that you NEED, for which there is no alternative, and which requires a team of PhDs to re-implement.
E.g., even a non-production single user corporate desktop license is $3K.