> On Feb 4, 2016, at 3:15 PM, Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > > > > Quite a while ago I went to talk (I think it may have been at an NZSA > conference) given by the great Ross Ihaka. I forget the details but my vague > recollection was that it involved a technique for automatic choice of some > sort of smoothing parameter involved in a graphical display.
Identifying discontinuities: https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/downloads/Curves.pdf http://www.google.com/patents/US6704013 TI can now own analytic geometry if they file enough patents. -- David. > Apparently Ross's ideas related peripherally to some patented technique owned > by Texas Instruments, and TI was causing problems for Ross. He seemed to be > of the opinion that the TPP would make matters worse. > > I suspect he's right. It will make matters worse for everyone except the > rich bastards in the multinationals, in all respects. > > cheers, > > Rolf > > -- > Technical Editor ANZJS > Department of Statistics > University of Auckland > Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 > > On 05/02/16 11:33, Marc Schwartz wrote: >> Ted and José, >> >> The FSF has a blog post here that might provide some insights: >> >> >> http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/time-to-act-on-tpp-is-now-rallies-against-tpp-in-washington-d-c-november-14-18 >> >> That is from last November, but the relevant passage, perhaps in a temporal >> vacuum, seems to be the second paragraph with the following sentences >> focused on the GPL: >> >> "The regulation would not affect freely licensed software, such as software >> under the GPL, that already comes with its own conditions ensuring users >> receive source code. Such licenses are grants of permission from the >> copyright holders on the work, who are not a "Party" to TPP." >> >> >> The Software Freedom Conservancy has a post on this as well, from the same >> time frame: >> >> https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2015/nov/09/gpl-tpp/ >> >> Regards, >> >> Marc >> >> >>> On Feb 4, 2016, at 4:01 PM, Ted Harding <ted.hard...@wlandres.net> wrote: >>> >>> Saludos José! >>> Could you please give a summary of the relevant parts of TPP >>> that might affect the use of R? I have looked up TPP on Wikipedia >>> without beginning to understand what it might imply for the use of R. >>> Best wishes, >>> Ted. >>> >>> On 04-Feb-2016 14:43:29 José Bustos wrote: >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> I have a question regarding the use R software under the new TPP laws >>>> adopted by some governments in the region. Who know how this new agreements >>>> will affect researchers and the R community? >>>> >>>> Hope some of you knows better and can give ideas about it. >>>> >>>> saludos, >>>> José > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
