[R] R in the NY Times

[Erik Iverson]

I pointed a friend of mine toward the article, to which he replied: 

"I hope that they run SAS on Solaris too, god only knows how tainted the
syscalls are in that linux freeware."

Of course, now Solaris is 'freeware', too, so I suppose that according to
SAS, running SAS on Windows is the best way to be sure you're getting the
right answers. 

On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:56:53 -0600, Marc Schwartz
<marc_schwartz at comcast.net> wrote:
> I would also point out that the use of the term "freeware" as opposed to
> "FOSS" by the SAS rep, comes off as being unprofessional and
> deliberately condescending...
> 
> The author of the article, to his credit, was pretty consistent in using
> open source terminology.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Marc
> 
> on 01/07/2009 10:26 AM Bryan Hanson wrote:
>> I believe the SAS person shot themselves in the foot more in more ways
> than
>> one.  In my mind, the reason you would pay, as Frank said, for
>>
>>> non-peer-reviewed software with hidden implementations of analytic
>>> methods that cannot be reproduced by others
>>
>> Would be so that you can sue them later when a software problem in the
>> designing of the engine makes your plane fall out of the sky!
> 
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