Romer has made some comments about open source with the specific example of Jupyter and Mathematica. " At a time when trust and truth are in retreat, the soci

Romer has made some comments about open source with the specific example of Jupyter and Mathematica. " At a time when trust and truth are in retreat, the social dimension is the one that matters. Jupyter rewards transparency; Mathematica rationalizes secrecy. Jupyter encourages individual integrity; Mathematica lets individuals hide behind corporate evasion. Jupyter exemplifies the social systems that emerged from the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, systems that make it possible for people to cooperate by committing to objective truth; Mathematica exemplifies the horde of new Vandals whose pursuit of private gain threatens a far greater pubic loss–the collapse of social systems that took centuries to build."