> I don't really understand the animosity toward Stephen Wolfram on HN - has he done something evil or been super rude to someone? He's super rude to pretty mu

> I don't really understand the animosity toward Stephen Wolfram on HN - has he done something evil or been super rude to someone? He's super rude to pretty much the entire scientific community, by essentially pretending to have invented cellular automata and ignoring everyone else's contributions - even to the point of suppressing them by wielding the legal axe of copyright law: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30941559 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30941559