"[email protected]" <[email protected]> writes:
> I'm a statistician and I use R is my primary tool. It's ironic that R > is a Free implementation of the S language created at Bell Labs. S was > enhanced into S-Plus, which was bought by Tibco. Is anyone using > S-Plus these days? I draw two conclusions from this. First, that R > eclipsed S-Plus shows the immense value and support for a Free > statistical programming language. Second, as the steward that watched > S-Plus vaporize, Tibco cannot speak with any authority on what makes > software successful. > > I'm not sure this is a big risk to R. It is definitely a sad day for > Revolution Analytics. I don't have deep knowledge about this, but I > think they started out doing for R what Red Hat did for GNU/Linux, > which is a business model consistent with software freedom. > > It's probably a debatable legal point, but I think they should not be > allowed to use the "R" name. For one thing, R's initial creators > didn't call their project "S." Second, there is likely to be confusion > about who has the real R, or which one they're actually using. I'm > envisioning Microsoft advertising that Excel now includes R, and > people having no idea it's not canonical R. > > Jim Garrett Maybe the best we should do, is to call every stuff to be place under foundation or association shield to not be acquire in any ways. ex: openoffice | oracle > libreoffice | libreoffice foundation -- Aurélien DESBRIÈRES
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