Amazingly dumb remark about Linux

[Octavian Rasnita]

Hi, I didn't say that there are no software for statistics for Unix.
I said that there are for Windows also, and that there are not very many
users of these statistics programs.

Teddy,
orasnita at home.ro

----- Original Message -----
From: <jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: Amazingly dumb remark about Linux


> 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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