Hi Teddy, You are kidding right? There were serious scientific and statistical applications on UNIX platforms long before WINDOWS was a gleam in Gates eye. Jim Wantz WB0TFK On Thu, 30 May 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > I don't know. You may be right. > However, I am sure that 99.999% of all spreadsheets users (not only excel) > don't need complicated things, statistics, etc. > > And BTW. If someone wants a program for statistics under Windows, there are > good program for this task, like SPSS, for example. > > Teddy, > orasnita at home.ro > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Liz Hare" <eh51 at cornell.edu> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 3:36 AM > Subject: Re: Amazingly dumb remark about Linux > > > > > > > > > > "no way! It doesn't have Excel, > > > > Yeah, right. <smirk> And you can't do real statistics (regressions and > > anything more complicated) because Excel does some of them wrong, and no > > one can figure out how because the software isn't open source. Even with > > other non-open-source stats software, you can learn how it works. Not the > > M$ kind though. > > > > Liz > > > > -- > > Liz Hare, Ph.D. > > Animal Breeding and Genetics Group > > Cornell University > > B47 Morrison Hall > > Ithaca, NY 14850 > > (607) 255 2380 > > eh51 at cornell.edu > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >