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

[Thomas HARDING]

On 24/06/2015 22:37, Algot Runeman wrote:
> 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."
As reading that article (or more probably "commercial") too, Microsoft 
would gain far more to licence "Microsoft SQL-Server" and "Microsoft 
Excel" under GPL, as some unsuitables features could be drop-out and 
some useful ones implemented. It would not be a change regarding the 
usual retro-compatibility of these "products" (what we call "software"). 
Obviously, a complete re-writing would be needed in order to reach the 
goal, and neededs.

I also remain an article entitled "why we failed with SQL Server", or 
something like...

TSFH