On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 05:52:51PM +0000, Carlos Canhoto wrote:
The university where I teach is being forced by the portuguese
government to use free software whenever it is possible.
However, they argue that SPSS has no cost-effective alternative
and they are asking all the staff for suggestions of how to
sustain the argument. I will, of course, answer that there is an
alternative, PSPP, and that there is no reason to keep SPSS.
But I think it would be useful if the PSPP team could publish, on
the PSPP site, a list (desirably growing) of universities that
use PSPP. That could help wherever in the world universities and
other research centers are resisting to the use of free software.
Well of course, the problem is, we don't have any official information about what universities use what. I have noticed a growing number of university web pages mention PSPP on course prospectus pages, but that is not quite the same. There are a number of wikis about pspp advocacy which might be a more suitable place to start such a list. Maybe you could ask on [email protected] who could contribute to such a list. Incidently the FAQ page does have links to a few referreed papers in which the authors have stated PSPP was used for the analysis. That might go some way to convince the doubters. The distractors will of course say that PSPP can't perform everything they need - they may be right. I suggest that you draw up a list of all the SPSS features that your institution uses, and whether PSPP can do them. Let us know the missing features. J' -- PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://keys.gnupg.net or any PGP keyserver for public key.
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