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Re: Thoughts on a Wolfram|Alpha package for

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• Subject: [mg101933] Re: Thoughts on a Wolfram|Alpha package for
• From: AES <siegman at stanford.edu>
• Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:56:48 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Stanford University
• References: <h41f31$rfv$1@smc.vnet.net> <200907202321.TAA26029@smc.vnet.net> <h46p5b$e5u$1@smc.vnet.net>

In article <h46p5b$e5u$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
 George Woodrow III <georgevw3 at mac.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?


> This is my take on the situation:
> 
> Over the years, I have purchased any number of add-ons for  
> Mathematica, including stuff from Wolfram and some third party  
> packages, including David's.
> 

Excellent, and very educational, reply  -- IMHO, anyway.

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  • Re: Thoughts on a Wolfram|Alpha package for
    • From: AES <siegman@stanford.edu>