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by 5166cc9c39fa61 2678 days ago
Rather than throwing even more money at Wolfram, it would be even better to put up a fund (maybe a crowdsourced campaign) to buy the rights to Macsyma and PDEase to release them under the GPL.
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Except the Wolfram Language provides access to vast information about the world.

I worked with the Knowledge Graph at Google and Wolfram Language seems like an easy to use personal version of that.

I would be happy to pay for it, forever, if it were more responsive.

> Except the Wolfram Language provides access to vast information about the world.

Which is mostly pulled in from public data sources, such as the CIA World Factbook, US census and economic data, US Geological Survey data, Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, etc. Knowledge Graph was based on Freebase, which in 2016 transferred its database to the Wikidata project (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page). So once again, instead of throwing more undeserved money at Wolfram for appropriating other people's work, the better alternative is to work on integrations of Wikidata into Common Lisp, SciPy, Org mode, etc. and contribute to Wikidata itself.

You have a good point!

Something to consider starting. A quicklisp library that caches wikidata, etc. and provides a uniform interface.