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Re: Study about accuracy of statistical software, incl. Octave


From: John W. Eaton
Subject: Re: Study about accuracy of statistical software, incl. Octave
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:42:50 -0400

On 24-Mar-2009, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:

| On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:07 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
| 
| > Writing a paper complaining about problems in free software is a
| > ridiculous thing to do.  Instead of writing a paper, they should have
| > reported the problems so that they might be fixed.
| 
| Not really. For instance, co-authoring a paper in an impacted journal
| about any piece of my work on Octave would be a big plus for me.

Yes, of course it makes sense to write a paper about your
contributions to Octave.

My point was that writing a paper that consists of bug reports is
stupid.  Especially since I don't think they contacted us first to
even ask whether we considered the behavior intentional, or just a bug
that would be fixed (probably relatively promptly).

jwe



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