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They tried to get it out for freeon the raspi but I guess the uptake was really quite low. Either way the program for that has basically ended. https://www.wolfram.com/raspberry-pi/

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I don’t see any source there. Was is open source or just beer-free?

It is not and has never been open-source. In fact they wrote https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/04/02/why-wolfram-tech-isnt-op... .

I'm aghast at this point: https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/04/02/why-wolfram-tech-isnt-op...

The blog post was probably literally written in and hosted entirely on open source software which were highly innovative at their earlier stages and continue to be highly innovative. This is a very self-serving presentation of an idea. Also, I officially dislike the word innovation.

Its a good thing that it did not take off. Using something for free without source code is the bad thing that could happen to pi wrt to its mission.

The Pi is built on a foundation of binary blobs. As I read it, https://www.raspberrypi.org/about/ is a lot more focused on free-as-beer than free-as-speech.

They are giving a lot, I respect them a lot for that. They are practical about it too, of course, compromises have to be made everywhere.

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