[Rd] No RTFM?

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Fri Aug 20 21:54:34 CEST 2010


On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Spencer Graves
<spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com> wrote:
>  Hi, Gabor, et al.:
>
>
>      Can anyone comment on the experience of the Ubuntu Forums and
> LinuxQuestions.org, mentioned in the Wikipedia article I cited?
>
>
>      Gabor makes an interesting point.  However, logic without data is a
> very poor tool for decision making, because great sounding assumptions have
> often led to conclusions that sound great but are counterproductive.  People
> with experience with the Ubuntu Forums and LinuxQuestions.org should be able
> to provide some insight here.
>

That is only "data" to the extent that Linux questions have the same
supply and demand characteristics as R -- but that is quite doubtful.



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