2009/1/10 Tony Breyal <tony.bre...@googlemail.com>: > [SAS marketroid quote] > "In fact, SAS values open-source software."
But clearly not enough to open-source SAS itself. It would seem that SAS values _other_people's_ open source. If SAS was open source and free, then SAS would collect on all the other things "Customers value SAS for" - support, testing, training, docs, etc etc. And there would be a lot more people using it. Another quote: "We advocate approaches based on science" - closed source is closed knowledge and is nearer alchemy than science. I may use proprietary software for video editing or music production, but when it comes to science, it's got to be open. Barru ______________________________________________ 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.