Exactly this. Oh just be a world beating, industry leading, technical titan of a company with multiple revenue streams and you can afford to give away some cod

Exactly this. Oh just be a world beating, industry leading, technical titan of a company with multiple revenue streams and you can afford to give away some code to make us all happy. Wolfram just has to launch an operating system, a search engine, a line of mobile phones and laptops, a cloud services unit, and sure then they'll give away Mathematica, what the hell why not?