Yeah, I was really pleased when I saw the headline, and then - only for the US/Canadian market. :-( I'm guessing it has something to do with being able to identify whether a credit card is linked to a person or an organisation. Does anyone know the details of how that works?

Wolfram do have a UK presence tho', I've spoken to people in their office here (and have just emailed them about this). So there's no reason they couldn't do whatever checks they do here too.

I'm using Sage at home at the moment which is fairly impressive in its own right, but it's not the same. Check it out: http://www.sagemath.org/

Actually, if you could email [email protected] about this maybe we could convince them there's sufficient demand for it.