Re: [Rd] Non-free packages in R-Forge

2011-11-23 Thread Dominick Samperi
2011/11/18 Spencer Graves spencer.gra...@prodsyse.com: Jordi:      Why do you want to reduce demand for Octave by forcing people who want to link to a commercial product to abandon Octave?      Are you familiar with Shapiro and Varian (1998) Information Rules:  A Strategic Guide to the

Re: [Rd] Non-free packages in R-Forge

2011-11-18 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
I'm sorry about the tone of my previous email. Let me try again in a cleaner way. The problem is: R or the organisation behind R via its infrastructure seems to be endorsing R-Forge, and R-Forge is hosting at least one project whose sole purpose is to link R with non-free software. This looks

Re: [Rd] Non-free packages in R-Forge

2011-11-18 Thread David Winsemius
On Nov 18, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: I'm sorry about the tone of my previous email. Let me try again in a cleaner way. The problem is: R or the organisation behind R via its infrastructure seems to be endorsing R-Forge, and R-Forge is hosting at least one project whose

Re: [Rd] Non-free packages in R-Forge

2011-11-18 Thread Kevin R. Coombes
You are, of course, missing the obvious solution, which is to do nothing. The endorsement of a non-free project seems to me to reside only in your imagination. The primary product produced by The R Project for Statistical Computing is the statistical software environment R, which is released