El 25 de junio de 2015 14:27:09 GMT+01:00, Thomas HARDING <[email protected]> escribió: >On 24/06/2015 22:37, Algot Runeman wrote: >> I stumbled across this post: >> http://spotfire.tibco.com/blog/?p=29291 >> and felt compelled to write a comment. >> >> "It sounds as if Microsoft should just buy TIBCO. The result won't be > >> R, perhaps. R is important because it is not buried cryptically in >> commercial products, R is important because it is Free Software, out >> in the open where scientists can evaluate the analysis of data from >> top right down to the bottom, not being forced to "believe" that a >> company has done a creditable implementation in its black box >software. >> >> The GPL is designed specifically to ensure the visibility of software > >> upon which our analysis relies." >> >As reading that article (or more probably "commercial") too, Microsoft >would gain far more to licence "Microsoft SQL-Server" and "Microsoft >Excel" under GPL, as some unsuitables features could be drop-out and >some useful ones implemented. It would not be a change regarding the >usual retro-compatibility of these "products" (what we call >"software"). >Obviously, a complete re-writing would be needed in order to reach the >goal, and neededs. > >I also remain an article entitled "why we failed with SQL Server", or >something like... > >TSFH
So MS excel is looking to imitate gnumeric which already consults with R project to get accurate statistics? Why would they need to buy company to do this? Or did I miss something? -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
