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Open source invites participation, including criticism. But do developers sometimes take it too far?

Developers can be a fickle bunch. Gifted with mountains of free, open-source code of ever-improving quality, some developers cant help but complain that theres not more, and even more free, software. But the problem often isn't the code itself, but poorly calibrated expectations and scanty training.

One sometimes unrealistic expectation is that software should be free. All of it.

So, for example, we have one young developer berating nginx for building admittedly amazing software but then having the audacity to charge for it.

No, really. Those nginx people are trying to make money by writing software that people want. Can you believe the gall?

Actually, his problem is more nuanced than this. Despite electing not to use Apache httpd, the Hip Young Startup blog author complains that nginx "took a feature that Apache httpd has had literally forever and put it behind a pay wall." It's unclear why he doesn't just use Apache to solve his problem, given that he also says "the performance difference between nginx and httpd in this scenario is negligible."

Or maybe he could fix nginx himself, given that, by his own admission, it's "trivial" to make the changes himself to get around nginx's attempts to sustain product development by charging for some features. The problem, as he acknowledges, is that he "shouldnt have to do any of this [crap]."

In other words, the world (or nginx) owes this developer a living. Who knew?

Let's be clear: one of the ways open source succeeds is by dramatically lowering the bar to adoption. Charging money, even a negligible fee, can hinder that adoption. But getting uppity about the primary developer of an open-source project charging money for value? As programmer Brendan Loudermilk (@bloudermilk) tells the Hip Young Startup blogger, "You could always pay for and support the software that serves as a core dependency of your app."

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Are Open Source Developers Too Demanding?

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Wolfram Research is giving away its Mathematica software for use on the diminutive, $25 Raspberry Pi computers -- and debuting a brand-new programming language.

Wolfram Research's Mathematica is available for free on Raspberry Pi machines.

Not since Steve Jobs' Next computers did Wolfram Research offer Mathematica, its premium mathematics, processing, and analysis software, for free.

The Next was an expensive, higher-end workstation. This time around, Wolfram is giving away Mathematica for computers at the opposite end of the spectrum: the diminutive, $25 Raspberry Pi.

It's a nice horse to hitch your cart to. Two million Raspberry Pi machines have been sold so far, and they're popular in the educational circles that Wolfram also targets.

Wolfram Research founder and Chief Executive Stephen Wolfram said Thursday that Mathematica is now available for Raspberry Pi computers and will ship with future models. In addition, the company also is including the first public prototype version of a new product, Wolfram Language.

"I'm a great believer in the importance of programming as a central component of education. And I'm excited that with the Wolfram Language I think we finally have a powerful programming language worthy of the next generation," Wolfram said. "We've got a language that's not mostly concerned with the details of computers, but is instead about being able to understand and create things on the basis of huge amounts of built-in computational ability and knowledge."

Those grand aspirations, to be sure, but they're nothing compared to how Wolfram introduced the Wolfram Language last week: "If we're forming a kind of global brain with all our interconnected computers and devices, then the Wolfram Language is the natural language for it."

Raspberry Pi machines -- naked circuit boards that run a version of Linux from an SD Card -- are geared for the hardware hacker crowd that's bubbling up in high-tech circles. They are of course not very powerful: Wolfram warns that Mathematica's graphical interface can be "sluggish." But the command-line interface is snappy, he said, and the machine is still vastly faster than those on which Mathematica got its start 25 years.

Mathematica is ordinarily expensive -- even the home version costs more than 10 times a Raspberry Pi, and the professional version is something like two orders of magnitude more costly than the tiny computer. But giving it away could make sense: Comparatively feeble Raspberry Pi machines are hardly likely to cut into sales of Mathematica on the workstations and laptops that paying customers use. And exposing students to new software and programming tools is a time-honored strategy to cultivate the next generation of customers.

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