On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jord...@octave.org> wrote: > The reason why it's important to have Windows and Mac binaries is that > there are users of those non-free OSes who would otherwise have no > access to Octave. It is not an endorsement of Windows or Mac OS X, > just like having a mex-file interface in Octave is not an endorsement > of Matlab. It's the only way to give those users a taste of free > software they would otherwise not have. > Yours forever free, > - Jordi G. H. > Very true. And that's also why it's important to make that free/open soure/what's in a name, a rose... etc software work with the tools people need. Even if these tools are not free. As long as the code added to R is in agreement with whatever license is in place, I fail to see the problem. Which was also Simon's point in this discussion, and the point I tried to get across.
Allowing access to MOSEK differs in nothing of allowing access to Access through RODBC for example. It makes R (and by extension the open source/free/what-do-we-call-it-here-again software community) stronger, not weaker. And nothing stops you from adding support for an open-source/free/... alternative to MOSEK. That way MOSEK users that come to R are exposed to the alternatives you want to promote, and if these alternatives work as well and free, then the users are more likely to shift. If MOSEK was not supported, MOSEK users wouldn't use R in the first place. By this, I wish the whole Octave community the very best, and I'm going to devote my time to write some open-source/free packages to R again. Cheers Joris PS: If anybody can give me some decent free alternative to MOSEK, and there's still no link to R for that, I might even take it up as a challenge. -- Joris Meys Statistical consultant Ghent University Faculty of Bioscience Engineering Department of Mathematical Modelling, Statistics and Bio-Informatics tel : +32 9 264 59 87 joris.m...@ugent.be ------------------------------- Disclaimer : http://helpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
