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Stephen has said many times that he will not be bought out. The important thing to understand is that Stephen Wolfram built Alpha as his personal "publication
by programnature 17y ago
Stephen has said many times that he will not be bought out.
The important thing to understand is that Stephen Wolfram built Alpha as his personal "publication platform." He is going to use it to in effect "publish" his ideas about NKS and computation in general into immediately useful form, to the entire world. Rather than write papers.
- mariorz 17y agoit would be very odd if he went around saying he's hoping that google and msft will start a bidding war for his company.
- programnature 17y agoHehe, true. However you need to take into account sw's career. Its pretty obvious if you look at his record that he is in this for the long term legacy. Alpha isn't just some web startup looking for an exit. Its the culmination of a life's work in computation, and the offspring of a 20+ year old company.