[Bug 433799] Re: core R package in universe nags me to install proprietary software at every start-up

[Nathaniel Smith]

No-one is objecting to their right to publicize their work -- all the
comments here are objecting to the *form* this publicity took. There are
a wide range of ways to provide information from users, from putting up
a web-page to adding misleading advertisements to GPL'ed software, and
they are currently doing the latter. This is completely uncool.

AFAICT, your comment is the first to bring up potential financial
reasons for this decision? (Obviously Canonical and REvolution R have
negotiated some sort of deal, though, or Canonical couldn't be
distributing revolution-r at all; if they'd like to describe the terms
of this deal then that would be a wonderful way to pre-empt any
speculation, but so far they seem to have decided not to do that.)

Please do submit a patch, if you have universe rights; perhaps it will
produce something useful. But we asked for an explanation a month and a
half ago with this bug report and the result has so far been silence
:-(.

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core R package in universe nags me to install proprietary software at every start-up
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