[tonyedgecombe]

Yet people are still paying for Mathematica and you are calling for it to be open sourced.

If the open source was so great what Wolfram did would be irrelevant.

[scotty79]

People pay for so many idiotic and irrelevant things that this is barely an argument in context of any other than hustling. Especially if you consider corporations and institutions to be "people".

For all of Wolfram hubris, Mathematica is just the third kind on the block, after Matlab and Maple. With his ambitions he was obviously aiming for something more culturally relevant.