Bert Gunter <gunter.ber...@gene.com> [Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 08:31:03PM CET]: [...] > Perhaps an argument is that certain code might not get written at all if it > were not proprietary. Device drivers might be an example.
Device drivers are not an example. Linux is ubiquitous _despite_ device manufacturers being secretive about their protocols and interfaces. There's a whole lot of people out there who seem to take pride, if not joy, in reengineering. At the moment I am profiting immensely from the gpsbabel tool, which translates readily between all different GPS-related formats, closed or documented. -- Johannes Hüsing There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture mailto:johan...@huesing.name from such a trifling investment of fact. http://derwisch.wikidot.com (Mark Twain, "Life on the Mississippi") ______________________________________________ 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.