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Re: Thoughts on a Wolfram|Alpha package for

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• Subject: [mg101885] Re: Thoughts on a Wolfram|Alpha package for
• From: AES <siegman at stanford.edu>
• Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:21:20 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Stanford University
• References: <h41f31$rfv$1@smc.vnet.net>

In article <h41f31$rfv$1 at smc.vnet.net>, David Reiss <dbreiss at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> 
> Sadly 3rd party application for Mathematica sell very poorly--rarely
> even beginning to recoup the cost to develop them.  But I could do
> this if there were a couple of hundred users willing to purchase it.
> 

I'd welcome your thoughts (or anyone's) on _why_ this is the case?  

(I have my own ideas, but reality checks are always useful.)

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