Re: [SLUG] Linuxworld stand for LA!

[Ken Wilson <kenwilso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Many things are used commercially or non-commercially, email, webpages, 
servers, office tools, photo tools, etc
We are concerned with FOSS, not share ware that has different conditions 
if you think that maybe you might make money using it.
I think the key is "inspires the imagination" , not non-comercial.
R is just as much mathematical/scientific as commercial, what is 
important to passers by is does it look "kewl" or "inspire the imagination"
So if it is a good demo that would be great.
Ken


Robert Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 08:15 +1100, telford@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> > On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 09:25:26PM +1100, Pia Waugh wrote:
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> > > We could even show some demos of non-commercial FOSS that just inspires
> > > the imagination.
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> > Why "non-commercial"? Is it a condition of getting a stand at m8s r8s?
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> > I'm pretty partial to setting the R graphics demo into a loop with
> > about a 2 second pause between screens. It looks scientific and busy
> > and self important. I use R in a commercial context all the time but
> > does that make the software itself commercial? Bit of a fuzzy line.
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> Maybe Pia meant non-proprietary ?
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> Rob