On 20 Apr 2004 at 10:47, Philippe Grosjean wrote: . . . . > Of course, this will only work with computers connected to the > internet,... but at least, it could be one way to evaluate the number > of R users. Would that be an infringment of Open Source, or any other > rule of freedom? I don't know, but it does seem to be quite widespread > (at least for commercial software). so, why an Open Source software > would not be able to monitor the number of users?
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