[Osmium]

> I'm just a little hesitant to do any meaningful work in such a closed ecosystem.

It's interesting. I do sometimes wonder if it's being held back because it's proprietary. Other companies have proved it's possible to monetise an open source product, and Wolfram Research is a private company so they can really do what they want in that regard. I want to see it succeed because I think it's a great product, and a very clever one at that, but I can't justify doing research that uses it when there are open source implementations I can use instead.

[gohrt]

I wish that whenever Wolfram passes on (no offense!), his heirs will open-source it (at least for non-commercial use, not necessarily BSD-style) as a gift to humanity. (While still maintaining a commercial business-support strucutre)