Over on the dead bird site we have another BS thread claim that 'corporations will not touch software XYZ (here: #Rstats) ... because of GPL'.
Now, I have worked in industry since the 1990s: on Wall St, at Fortune 500 corp, at big Hedge Fund. GPL software is everywhere. Most companies do not sell or distribute software and are very well served by the GPL because it ensures these software resources will not go away -- but can, and are used and adapted at will. So just stop the FUD.
@eddelbuettel@vicash In the mid-1990s I had to convince the cert-addled HP-UX administrators at my Fortune 100 company that it was OK to install the “shareware” GNU Compiler Collection gcc. The attitude was that Big Important Software for Big Important Companies had to come from other Big Important Companies.
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