[R] R in the NY Times

[Johannes Huesing]

Bert Gunter <gunter.berton at gene.com> [Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 08:31:03PM CET]:
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> 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.

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