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

2011-11-23 Thread Dominick Samperi
2011/11/18 Spencer Graves : > 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 Network Economy (Harv

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

2011-11-18 Thread Spencer Graves
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 Network Economy (Harvard Bus. Sch. Pr.)? Varian is now

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 relea

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

2011-11-18 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
Let me give a little more context of why this is important. As you can read in this thread: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=CAPHS2gwmxJGF9Cy8%3DSEGasQcVRg_Lqu- ndCdVhO-r1LJsRQGuA%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=octave-dev The author of MOSEK basically created a non-free

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

2011-11-18 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Nov 18, 2011, at 12:00 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 > proj

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 s

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 like