After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> __/ [ Linonut ] on Monday 18 September 2006 21:50 \__
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>> SAS ported JMP to Linux in 2003, and now they've ported it to 64-bit
>> Linux. SAS seems proud to link to this article, which appear in the
>> September 2006 Linux Journal:
>>
>> http://www.jmp.com/about/news/linux_journal/index.shtml
>>
>> Good on ya, GNU! Nice of ya to cooperate with a proprietary software
>> outfit.
>
> Opinion: proprietary scientific software is still non-'scientific' in its
> spirit. It often makes the user depend on very expensive licenses in order
> to do some analysis or run some simple code. It also hides the way it
> operates; black boxes are means of discouraging education through curiosity.
> That, for example, is why projects like Octave emerge, which mimic the
> behaviour of MATLAB and other scientific computing packages/languages.
But but, JMP has a GUUUUUUUUIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Linux may not always have the most "user-friendly" (whatever the hell
that means) software, but it sometimes has some pretty powerful code.
The same edition of LJ also had an article about clustering and Linux.
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"I'm going to f'in *kill* Google!"
-- Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft
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