[R] R Founding

[Duncan Murdoch]

  On 16/09/2010 3:29 PM, Kevin Wright wrote:
>   I am sure there would be enough to employ some foundation members
>
> >  full-time, pay external CSs and even protect the system in court from those
> >  who make money off of somebody else's work and do not give back to the
> >  community (you know who I am talking about).
> >
>
> If you are trying to smear Revolution, then consider:
>
> Revolution has given back in a number of ways: supporting the useR
> conference, assisting R core with getting R to build on 64-bit Windows
> systems, bug fixes, releasing some open source packages, a very fine blog
> from which I have learned some quite useful information, and helping R gain
> some needed credibility in the media and business worlds.  Not to mention
> the stainless steel water bottle they handed out at useR. :-)

Most of those I agree with, but I think it was more R core (in 
particular Brian Ripley) who got R to build on 64-bit Windows systems.  
I helped Revolution to understand what he had done.

Duncan Murdoch

> All of these cost money and benefit R, even if the dollars themselves don't
> flow to the R foundation.
>
> Kevin Wright
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