A.J. Rossini wrote: > > > Ubuntu is a commercial distribution, for loose definitions of commercial. > Why shouldn't they cut a deal with Revolution, who is doing a very similar > thing? > > If you want something closer to the ideal of volunteer-driven free as in > beer and speech, you'll need to stick with Debian. > > Canonical and Revolution have very similar business models. And they just > happen to have similar relationships to volunteer-driven development in > Debian and R-Core. > > -tony >
I sincerely hope I did not come across as overly negative in my original query. I am glad that companies such as Canonical (Ubuntu) and REvolutions Computing (R-Project) are able to build business plans via free software. Although Canonical has a less than perfect track-record when it comes to releasing all of it's code (example - UbuntuOne _server_ code), it appears REvolution Computing has released the code to it's extensions. I do however wish there had been more communication to end-users about this change. Had the REvolution extensions merely been added to the Ubuntu repositories, such communication would have been less important. But, R now starts with a message about installing the REvolution Computing extensions if it can't find them. My OP was an attempt to learn more about the nature of the changes (did they affect r-core) and the maturity/dependability of these extensions. Truthfully, I'm looking forward to the next project where I can some of this out. The foreach() function seems really really nifty. (I can't believe I just said something positive about using a loop in R.) All that being said, I would agree that a purist would probably find Debian to be a better match. But, I am not much of a purist. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Ubuntu%2C-Revolutions%2C-R-tp25744817p25849088.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.
