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I would be happy to do the computing on my own servers.


And should they give you the tera- or petabytes of data sets that constitute the actual value proposition of the Wolfram language? The data sets they keep current so when you ask for the flag of the largest country that says "good afternoon", you know you are getting the current largest country.

It seems to me that other people shouldn't demand the results of somebody else's efforts be released in any way other than the creator desires. Feel free to gather the data yourself, build a platform of your own, and then give it away, but the arrogance of expecting somebody else to do that for you is nothing short of shocking to me.


Servers include semantic update: I doubt you have the capacity to do that with the same commitment, or that Wolfram Language would make much sense without it.


OK, use something else then.




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