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From the article "...with all its computational intelligence, algorithms, knowledgebase, and so on"

Isn't that the idea of this announcement? Free to start, pay when you deploy.

Click the Download button on

https://www.wolfram.com/developer/

Its linked from the article.

I think there are people in applied math data science and statistics who use Windows and OSX.

Wolfram supports numeric computation too (optimization, PDE solvers, data science etc

>Most software is grounded in an open source

That depends on the software development segment. If you are creating 3D games you would expect to build on top of Unity or Unreal because unless you are a major studio building the infrastructure yourself is expensive, slow and not as good. The question is "is computation" such a segment?

Some things that Wolfram Language does that maxima doesn't: machine learning, image processing, audio processing, time series analysis, user interface construction, build-in data, geo computation, natural language processing....

Maxima is just a computer algebra system- one small part of what Wolfram does.