Jupyter, Mathematica, and the Future of the Research Paper
&gt; The tie-breaker is social, not technical.<p>The tie-breaker is financial. Jupyter is winning because it&#x27;s free, not because it&#x27;s social. It becomes social because of widespread adoption, and it get&#x27;s widespread adoption because it&#x27;s free.<p>I <i>love</i> Jupyter, love love love. But there&#x27;s a lot of hyperbole and opinion here. Mathematica is just a for-profit business, it&#x27;s that simple. And it wouldn&#x27;t be fair to deny the example that Mathematica, Maple &amp; Matlab have set for free solutions like Jupyter.<p>There&#x27;s nothing dishonest about a for-profit business. And if Mathematica wants to keep PDF export for themselves, so be it, that&#x27;s their right. What&#x27;s dishonest is expecting technical software and service for free and calling people names like vandals if you don&#x27;t get it. Just celebrate Jupyter and enjoy that people are doing great work you get to use without paying. I don&#x27;t love Mathematica or it&#x27;s founder, but there&#x27;s no real need to impugn Mathematica in order to make this point.