Not lawmakers in this case, but judges having no understanding of what they're ruling on.

Last year a judge almost blocked all of telegram for everyone :( also because of a complaint of some large telco. Luckily they realised the extreme impact of this decision and reverted it.

That's why one company should not be allowed being an ISPs and a media company.

How much is it spending in the Anthropic API so far?

The fact that the oldest current law in the list is about places where nuns are allowed to be buried is quite amusing, in some sort of way.

To be fair, the BOE website often offers the consolidated version for many important laws, which includes further amendments by other laws in one text.

It says it's OSS, but I can't find a link to the source code in the website, am I just being dense?

They seem to try very hard not to link to the repo. The website mentions "Open Camera's SourceForge page", which Google finds at: https://sourceforge.net/p/opencamera/code/ci/master/tree/

Having been both in academia and industry, to me Stephen always sounds too academic for business, but for academia, a mix of too "industry" and a crank.

If he'd failed at his endeavors and didn't have a very successful company, that might be interesting insight. Since that didn't happen, it feels like you're fronting with your judgement in spite of its irrelevance to his arc.

Or accelerated, since development would have ceased to be restricted to Wolfram's employees

If that was really going to be the case then we wouldn't be having this discussion, there would already be an open source streaking ahead.

Have you seen a little piece of software called Python that basically single-handedly ushered the age of AI? What did Wolfram do except playing toys in his high walled sandbox?

Figuratively half of the comments under this post are "I guess it's cute but I can't see anything in there that I couldn't do with Python".

Yet people are still paying for Mathematica and you are calling for it to be open sourced.

If the open source was so great what Wolfram did would be irrelevant.

People pay for so many idiotic and irrelevant things that this is barely an argument in context of any other than hustling. Especially if you consider corporations and institutions to be "people".

For all of Wolfram hubris, Mathematica is just the third kind on the block, after Matlab and Maple. With his ambitions he was obviously aiming for something more culturally relevant.

Isn't there already Maxima which is several decades old?

Maxima, Axiom, SymPy, and many more CAS systems exist. They don't run Mathematica code, so if that's your goal they don't help.

The golden ratio makes for even less balanced paper than sqrt(2)

Not closer to the spoken sounds, closer to English orthography.

It works better with other European languages' orthography too.

Native German speaker here. It fits very well here, too