They could have just put it in the non-free repositories, but noooo-nooo it comes preinstalled. Obviously an attempt to push non-free software - just like MS pu

They could have just put it in the non-free repositories, but noooo-nooo it comes preinstalled. Obviously an attempt to push non-free software - just like MS pushing VS with Dreamspark. Looking at the frighteningly informative article on the Wolfram page, your theory doesn't seem far out at all.