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Which claim? That he sued everyone in order to acquire control of Mathematica?

Like I said, it's hard to give evidence of that because he sued everyone into silence, but here's some vague allusions about it:

    Wolfram quit Illinois, took the program private, and entered into
    complicated lawsuits with both his former employee and his
    co-authors (all since settled).
http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfra...

I suppose your next move is to discredit this source, but this isn't the first time I hear about it. I remember other vague allusions to this incident, and it fits with Wolfram's overall litigious nature, which is well-documented. I'll try emailing the parties that were probably involved (I think it included at least partially the SMP crowd).

In the meantime, you can keep defending Wolfram, but I don't think you really need to. He's got no shortage of shills.



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