While this would be lovely, it could be applied to tons of software (stretching the "important for humanity" piece as necessary and feels a bit fallacious. As s

While this would be lovely, it could be applied to tons of software (stretching the "important for humanity" piece as necessary and feels a bit fallacious. As scrumper says below, sometimes a piece of software is too large or expensive of an endeavor to be done for free. I don't think we can fault Wolfram (the company) for that. Also consider that in any other industry, this would be a crazy request (except perhaps for the pharmaceutical industry, but that's its own can of worms). We're lucky that in software, some people will oblige our request to use what they make for free and change it too.