[libreplanet-discuss] Microsoft and a version of R

[Algot Runeman]

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."

--Algot