I pointed a friend of mine toward the article, to which he replied: "I hope that they run SAS on Solaris too, god only knows how tainted the syscalls are in that linux freeware."
Of course, now Solaris is 'freeware', too, so I suppose that according to SAS, running SAS on Windows is the best way to be sure you're getting the right answers. On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:56:53 -0600, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@comcast.net> wrote: > I would also point out that the use of the term "freeware" as opposed to > "FOSS" by the SAS rep, comes off as being unprofessional and > deliberately condescending... > > The author of the article, to his credit, was pretty consistent in using > open source terminology. > > Regards, > > Marc > > on 01/07/2009 10:26 AM Bryan Hanson wrote: >> I believe the SAS person shot themselves in the foot more in more ways > than >> one. In my mind, the reason you would pay, as Frank said, for >> >>> non-peer-reviewed software with hidden implementations of analytic >>> methods that cannot be reproduced by others >> >> Would be so that you can sue them later when a software problem in the >> designing of the engine makes your plane fall out of the sky! > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
