If Wolfram wants to market this independently, then that is their perogative, but educational tools given to kids should be reuse- and remix-friendly. The platform should remain open to all, and putting something like this in a default install will perpetuate a system of haves and have-nots. The responses to this pilot release have been overwhelmingly positive. I dearly wish that more of the RaspberryPI system could be Open Hardware, and love the fact that schoolchildren are getting their hands on their own computer that runs FOSS that they can program and tinker with and invent and dream.īut I dearly hope that the Foundation folks say 'Thanks but no thanks' to this offer of crippleware. Just this past week, it’s become even easier to get the software since The Raspberry Pi Foundation began bundling Mathematica and the Wolfram Language directly with their standard NOOBS package and Raspbian operating system.

I give the RaspberryPi folks credit for making amazing and fun toy for children (that turns out to actually be a quite powerful and useful system for all ages, but shhhh, don't tell the kids! :-).

(There’s also going to be a licensing mechanism for commercial uses, other Linux ARM systems, and so on.)

As with Wolfram|Alpha on the web, the Wolfram Language (and Mathematica) on the Raspberry Pi are going to be free for anyone to use for personal purposes. Wolfram Language, C/C++, Java Windows, macOS, Linux (includes separated support for Raspbian on Raspberry Pi), online service.

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