R in the NY Times

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!