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		danbmil99 on March 14, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wil Shipley on TED 2010: Wolfram uses conversation... shipley on Wolfram: "If he were a patent-troll I'd have no patience for him, sure, but he's a man of science in the truest sense of the word." Wolfram is extremely litigious: http://cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/2002-July/005692.html He's also notoriously skimpy on giving credit for ideas. while I haven't heard any specific claims of patent troll-ism, I suspect he has a ton of patents on Mathematica and Alpha.

abecedarius on March 14, 2010 [–]

Case in point on credit for ideas: Shipley reports him saying he invented a parameterization of shell designs in nature. That subject got a few pages in a Richard Dawkins book, and I'd remember if Dawkins had credited Wolfram. (Maybe Wolfram got it independently. I don't know.)

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