Amazingly dumb remark about Linux (fwd)

[Ed Barnes]

Hi twit!
This is not a Windows list so we don't care about it, and if some 
members of the list do so and they wanted to read emails about windows 
I'm sure they'd subscribe to lists like guispeak and the like.
Also, it's not good practice to make assumptions especially with the 
level of certainty with which you are trying to backup yours.
Anyway...I'm out of here. Guess it's time to get out my editor of choice 
and put my procmail files back in place as I've not done so since I last 
flattened this box.
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote:

> I don't know. You may be right.
> However, I am sure that 99.999% of all spreadsheets users (not only excel)
> don't need complicated things, statistics, etc.
> 
> And BTW. If someone wants a program for statistics under Windows, there are
> good program for this task, like SPSS, for example.
> 
> Teddy,
> orasnita at home.ro
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Liz Hare" <eh51 at cornell.edu>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 3:36 AM
> Subject: Re: Amazingly dumb remark about Linux
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > > > "no way!  It doesn't have Excel,
> >
> > Yeah, right. <smirk> And you can't do real statistics (regressions and
> > anything more complicated) because Excel does some of them wrong, and no
> > one can figure out how because the software isn't open source.  Even with
> > other non-open-source stats software, you can learn how it works.  Not the
> > M$ kind though.
> >
> > Liz
> >
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