QED... as in, "I've demonstrated what I wanted to say, regardless of what the original claim was." OP was talking about fearing the 'gift' because it might be

QED... as in, "I've demonstrated what I wanted to say, regardless of what the original claim was." OP was talking about fearing the 'gift' because it might be a ploy to get you data-locked into Wolfram's cloud suite, or some other kind of bait-and-switch. As in, there might be unforeseen consequences of embracing this offering. I don't think there was any implication that we might not be able to uninstall Mathematica. I think it's an apt analogy.