Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gratis software being released as proprietary

[Andrés Muñiz Piniella]

>
>Be mindful of certain limits.  It's not reasonable to push for the
>liberation of software that they simply do not have control
>over---there
>may be 3rd-party licensing issues, NDAs, grant terms, etc.
>
>

Given that they have hired external developers there might be strings attached. 
This is a good point.


>> What are some infamous examples of dead/graveyard technical
>> proprietary software?
>
>Consider GNU.  We are using and improving on tools that are more than
>thirty years old---some before GNU existed.  The better question is:
>what proprietary software can you think of that has stood this test of
>time?
>
>Users are concerned about dying software all the time.  What if Apple
>decided one day to simply stop developing its software?  What would
>happen with all the data stored in proprietary formats, or software
>using their proprietary APIs?  What would happen to all of the software
>that runs only on their operating system?  Or what if they did it
>intentionally, to force users to "upgrade" to something newer?
>
>
This might be of interest.
https://spot.livejournal.com/308370.html

I guess first stop might be to find a bugtracker, repository,  mailinglist, 
documentation page(wiki?). Gnu Savannah seems to have all of the above.

dev Community might be kickstarted when liberized and posted/advertized in R 
developer forums. In fact, I think they would love to hear about the project.
I think gnumeric (gnome spreadsheet ) works with R.


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