Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Microsoft and a version of R

[aurelien]

"jimgarrett001@gmail.com" <jimgarrett001@gmail.com> 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


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