Amazingly dumb remark about Linux

[jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov]

Hi Teddy,
You are kidding right?  There were serious scientific and statistical 
applications on UNIX platforms long before WINDOWS was a gleam in Gates 
eye.

     Jim Wantz WB0TFK
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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