I don't have a big problem with the money: it's a fraction of month's salary. The usual problem with commercial languages is the freedom to set things up how I

I don't have a big problem with the money: it's a fraction of month's salary. The usual problem with commercial languages is the freedom to set things up how I want and spin up new environments quickly. Mathematica, for instance, is a significant pain to run on my laptop, desktop, and a cloud machine. I think there's room to innovate in licensing. I would err on the side of making it easy to install at the cost of some piracy. A great language could 100x its market share by losing 1/2 to piracy, so 50x overall.