Mastodawn

I fell in love with the R ecosystem during my PhD. Thousands of open source packages, all free. I never had to depend on Microsoft or a university license to do science. Now I write ecology packages and put them on CRAN. Independent tools for independent science. #rstats

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Koantig 2d ago

@GillesColling
Re: independence: it's high time to be wary of the dominating position posit occupies, and its direction of travel.

@koantig @GillesColling That happened years ago when they became a supplier to palintir

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Barry Rowlingson 2d ago

@danwwilson @koantig @GillesColling and more recently, when positron was released as non-Open Source.

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Koantig 2d ago

@geospacedman @danwwilson @GillesColling Is that the case? I'm seeing an active repo here: https://github.com/posit-dev/positron

(which incidentally contains a .claude folder)

GitHub - posit-dev/positron: Positron, a next-generation data science IDE

Positron, a next-generation data science IDE. Contribute to posit-dev/positron development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Barry Rowlingson 2d ago

@koantig @danwwilson @GillesColling The license is the Elastic License which restricts certain usages of the product, and hence makes it not an OSI approved license (which is why I capitalised Open Source). Feel free to commit PRs to that repo so that Posit can make more money (from Palantir and friends?).

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Koantig

@geospacedman
Thank you for clarifying!

@danwwilson @GillesColling