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Maybe we need an open-source Mathematica or Wolfram Alpha, but I don't think Wolfram would benefit of either being open-source.

He'd be remembered as having given a gift to mankind, which he might like very much.

His very large book was the "gift" to the public. Now we just need to find the "rule" that explains the universe.

Wasn't that NKS?

Seriously though, he did seem open to the idea of at least partially open-sourcing Mathematica during a recent AmA: http://sx.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/qisot/im_stephen_wolfra...