Is Microsoft LinkdIn a shill for Revolution R?
I tried adding a complaint about Microsoft R (in my long junior membership to the LinkdIn R Discussion Group) to a growing stream asking opinions about the Microsoft/Revolution R. The discussion was growing and I was only one of a smattering of negative criticisms. That discussion stream seems to have been quashed! So it seems to me that Microsoft is strictly controlling people's discussions of its now old Rev-R purchase using its newly purchased LinkdIn. This seems to me to be evidence of malfeasance in the intellectual and social-media world.
My criticism was that installing the MS/Rev-R version of R on your Mac makes it very difficult to switch back to the Open Source CRAN version of R, a legitimate issue for techies that could have an easy solution that the R-Discussion Group on LinkdIn could be helpful with. But Microsoft(?) has suppressed this communication seemingly protecting its own interest in its asset, Microsoft-R.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
