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There is an interesting article about the reasons why Wolfram decided against open source and why their products would not have been possible otherwise: https:/
by phforms 4y ago
There is an interesting article about the reasons why Wolfram decided against open source and why their products would not have been possible otherwise:
https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/04/02/why-wolfram-tech-isnt-open-source-a-dozen-reasons/ https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/04/02/why-wolfram-tech-isnt-op...
As much as I don’t like it either, I can understand their perspective and actually believe that it might have been very hard to create and sustain such a comprehensive, thoughtfully and consistently designed language with an open source model. But it may be interesting to see if there are projects of similar scale with similar requirements that thrive (long-term) on a free and open source model.
- xigoi 4y agoMost of the points in the article are for centralized development, which has nothing to do with open source.