On 13-11-24 4:13 PM, Yihui Xie wrote:
I do not see how it can be illegal to download and duplicate the
posts, since all the content is licensed under CC BY-SA. I might have
missed something there: http://stackexchange.com/legal If that is
really the case, I think I will have to reconsider if I should use it
any more.
I'm not a lawyer, but I see claims restricting users to "personal use".
Duncan Murdoch
Regards,
Yihui
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On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 13-11-24 2:04 PM, Yihui Xie wrote:
I'm not aware of a discussion on this, but I would say no.
Fragmentation is bad. Further fragmentation is worse.
TL;DR
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Actually I'd say all mailing lists except r-devel should be moving to
StackOverlow in the future (disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with it).
I would generally agree with you, except for a few points.
1. I avoid StackOverflow, because they claim copyright on the compilation.
As I read their terms of service, it would be illegal for anyone to download
and duplicate all postings about R. So a posting there is only available as
long as they choose to make it available. Postings to the mailing list are
archived in several places.
2. I think an interface like StackOverflow is better than the mailing list
interface, and will eventually win out. R-help needs to do nothing, once
someone puts together something like StackOverflow that attracts most of the
people who give good answers, R-help will just fade away.
Duncan Murdoch
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