As is usual for Stephen Wolfram, he has a point, and then blunts it by trying to own the whole thing. Edit: to expand, part of the answer to his question, why

As is usual for Stephen Wolfram, he has a point, and then blunts it by trying to own the whole thing. Edit: to expand, part of the answer to his question, why don't more people do this, is that it requires his expensive proprietary software. Scientific papers are (nominally at least) a commons.