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I don’t see any source there. Was is open source or just beer-free?

• Smaug123 5y ago
  It is not and has never been open-source. In fact they wrote 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... .
  • agentdrek 5y ago
    I'm aghast at this point: https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/04/02/why-wolfram-tech-isnt-open-source-a-dozen-reasons/#nine-open-source-doesnt-bring-major-tech-innovation-to-market https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/04/02/why-wolfram-tech-isnt-op... The blog post was probably literally written in and hosted entirely on open source software which were highly innovative at their earlier stages and continue to be highly innovative. This is a very self-serving presentation of an idea. Also, I officially dislike the word innovation.
• throway453sde 5y ago
  Its a good thing that it did not take off. Using something for free without source code is the bad thing that could happen to pi wrt to its mission.
  • carry_bit 5y ago
    The Pi is built on a foundation of binary blobs. As I read it, https://www.raspberrypi.org/about/ https://www.raspberrypi.org/about/ is a lot more focused on free-as-beer than free-as-speech.
    • kzrdude 5y ago
      They are giving a lot, I respect them a lot for that. They are practical about it too, of course, compromises have to be made everywhere.