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I don't think wolfram is a special case, it's just a complex end-user product that's polished and innovative. I struggle to think of open source end-user produ

by patrec 8y ago

I don't think wolfram is a special case, it's just a complex end-user product that's polished and innovative. I struggle to think of open source end-user product that has: - technical innovation - polished UI/UX/documentation - a problem domain of moderate to high complexity Can you name any?

brianpgordon 8y ago
Chrome, IntelliJ, Blender, RHEL, AOSP. Anyway, if he had restricted his argument to "polished software is hard with an open source business model" then I wouldn't be posting an unimpressed comment. Instead, the argument centers around Mathematica being a special case.