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People donate their data to support Wolfram's closed-source, paid-license, for-profit program?
by jonpeda 13y ago
People donate their data to support Wolfram's closed-source, paid-license, for-profit program?
- misiti3780 13y agoi was thinking the same thing ..
- mcintyre1994 13y agoThey said they'll use it to support their 'personal analytics' programme [0], which is free via wolframalpha.com - I don't see how this data would help with Mathematica or anything else they charge for? [0] http://www.wolframalpha.com/facebook/ http://www.wolframalpha.com/facebook/
- maxerickson 13y agoThey are using it for marketing. (I mean the post is what it is, I don't mean to whine about it)
- programnature 13y agoWolfram must have have built something people want, are willing to pay for, and even like ?
- stared 13y agoIt is data already on Facebook, so why are you so picky with sharing it further? (Or rather - criticizing people who do so.) Especially, as one can get some nice plots back (also - personal).
- hammock 13y agoIt's taking advantage of non-public Facebook data, which is closed anyway. So, your data is now being used by two places instead of one. More open.
- susi22 13y agoEven though WA is closed source and for-profit, I few them (and the company) as a kind of fellow scientist and not the evil big corporation (like oracle, microsoft etc.). It all depends who ask for my data.
- qq66 13y agoPeople donated their data so that a blog post like this could be written. Mission accomplished, I guess.