Lowering the price to $300 allows Wolfram Research to reach into the long tail, but only an inch or two. Until then, Mathematica will be doomed to realize only the smallest part of its potential, most of which lies in the long tail. It's an amazing tool, and if everybody could use it - without constraints, that is - the benefit to society would be profound. I still hold out hope that Mathematica will go open source one day. I soon discovered that open-source alternatives were good enough, and I haven't looked back since. About five years ago, however, I stopped using it because I was concerned about having too much of my life's work invested in a proprietary system.
I used Mathematica for over a decade, and I think it's an amazing work of mathematics, engineering, and software craft.
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